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Supporting attention and focus in the classroom

  • Webcasts
  • 18 Mar 2024
Webcast
Webinar
mainstream
,
specialist settings
,
condition specific

This webcast is for practitioners across all phases, and will help with supporting students who experience attention, focus and more broadly executive function challenges in the classroom.

This will help all practitioners understand why children and young people experience attention and focus challenges, and reflect on how teaching and learning and can be adapted to support them.

Objectives/Aims

  • To help practitioners be informed around the theory of attention and focus challenges, how this can impact their learners, and what they can do to support them.

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This resource was first published in March 2024.

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioner, Inclusion Manager/Leader, Newly Qualified Teacher, SENCO, Support staff, Teaching Assistant, Tutor

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