SEND CPD on Demand Content Guide

We’ve designed this subscription with the entire education sector in mind, but to help make your decision, about what content to access first, we have created a content guide.

nasen Connect magazine feature edition 2024

This mental health and wellbeing feature edition is packed full of articles to inform, inspire and embed a culture of communication about good mental health and wellbeing.

A nature-inspired approach to learning (Article taken from nasen Connect Feature Edition)

Five Ways to Promote Wellbeing (Article taken from nasen Connect Feature Edition)

Supporting spelling in the classroom

supporting_spelling_in_the_classroom_webcast_slides.pdf

This webcast is for teachers and practitioners who want to support children and young people with spelling difficulties. This webcast is suitable for both primary and secondary phases.

Autistic learners and the mainstream setting - Your choice webinar recording

This webinar looks at inclusive practice to support all learners, including those who are autistic.

Twilight Talks Research Series: Do you understand, or do you just listen? – Co-producing research in Specialist (Autism) Mentoring

Universities in the UK have seen a remarkable increase in the number of autistic students, with some 18,800+ in attendance. More than half receive funding for Specialist (Autism) Mentoring to “remove barriers to learning”.

Inclusive Maths for Primary Settings: Supporting Autistic learners within maths and problem-solving strategies

useful_links_for_supporting_autistic_learners_within_maths_.pdf

In this session we will be taking a deeper look at the area of greatest increase, autism, within primary settings and focusing on support across the curriculum and particularly the area of problem-solving within maths.

Graduated Approach Prompt

Graduated approach prompt - May 2024.docx

This resource is designed to help teachers work their way through the graduated approach for those pupils that haven’t necessarily yet been identified with SEN but for whom there are initial concerns.

Supporting working memory within the classroom

supporting_working_memory_in_the_classroom_webcast_slides.pdf

This webcast explores the role of working memory in learning, and how difficulties in this area can impact learning; before going on to suggest to strategies which may help support students with challenges in this area.

Twilight Talks Research Series: Using focus groups in education setting

This session will introduce learners to focus groups as an effective method for collecting views from multiple stakeholders and it will provide an overview of focus group methodology.

nasen Connect magazine Summer 2024

The summer edition of Connect magazine includes insights from settings with innovative approaches to maximising employability, and one school shares how their new curriculum approach has eased the impact of transition.

Time Together with your Toddler

Session 2 Time Together with your Toddler May 2024.pdf

This booklet has been produced by nasen for parents, carers and families of all children in the Early Years but particularly those with SEND. It gives ideas for places to look for activities to do with young children from trusted and well-known sources.

Inclusive Maths for Primary Settings: Supporting learners with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) within maths

useful_links_for_supporting_learners_with_slcn_within_maths.pdf

In this session we will be taking a deeper look at the highest area of need within primary settings and strategies to support generally in the classroom and strategies to develop vocabulary within maths.

SEND Code of Practice & EYFS Framework – what they say

COP and EYFS at a glance for group and school based providers - A3.pdf COP and EYFS at a glance for group and school based providers - A4.pdf cop_and_eyfs_for_childminders_at_a_glance_-_a3.pdf cop_and_eyfs_for_childminders_at_a_glance_-_a4_.pdf

This resource is a quick reference guide which highlights the key messages for SEND in the context of early years. It can be printed out and displayed, used as the focus of a staff meeting or kept in the front of a practitioner’s planning folder.

Meeting the Needs of Every Child

Activity 1 SEND and Inclusion Audit.docx Activity 2 UNCRC Reflection tool.docx Activity 3 Audit of universal inclusive practice.docx Activity 4 Partnership with parents.docx Activity 5 Case studies.docx

This DfE funded online course is FREE to access and will provide Early Years Practitioners with an overview and understanding of inclusive practice for SEND in Early Years settings.

Inclusive practice for mainstream classrooms - Your choice webinar recording

This webinar offers practical guidance for those practitioners looking to meet the needs of the growing numbers of learners with identified SEND in their mainstream classrooms. 

Improving Outcomes for Learners with Vision Impairment (VI) at post-16 - Access to Learning

Webinar 2 - Access to Learning - slides.pdf links_for_webinar_2_-_access_to_learning.docx

This webinar is for staff working with young people at post-16 in education, training or employment to explore how the learning environment & additional support can be put in place to ensure that staff & students feel confident in their post-16 provision.

Supporting attention and focus in the classroom

supporting_attention_and_focus_in_the_classroom_webcast_slides.pdf

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.

Improving Outcomes for Learners with Vision Impairment (VI) at post-16 - ​​​​​​​Learning to Access

links_for_webinar_1_-_learning_to_access.docx webinar_1_-_learning_to_access_-_slides.pdf

This webinar is for staff working with young people at post-16 in education, training or employment to explore how the learning environment & additional support can be put in place to ensure that staff & students feel confident in their post-16 provision.