Neurodiversity in Schools Differentiation tip 5 Prioritisation: which exercise question or task to select for your Neurodivergent pupil No, we are not going to ‘dumb down’ the task for our ND learners. This isn’t ‘all, most, some’ or ‘death by 100 worksheets’. It’s looking at the materials, tasks and skills and thinking which parts of the learning […]
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Differentiation tip 4 4. Staging of the task for your neurodivergent learners If you want to know more about ‘staging of the task’ and how that helps neurodivergent pupils in a mainstream classroom, you have come to the right place! What is ‘staging the task?’ This means laying out the task in an accessible manner
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What are Challenging and Disruptive Behaviour in Neurodivergent Children? This blog is the first in a series about behaviour and neurodivergent children. I’m going explain how to understand what is going on when our neurodivergent pupils present as challenging and disruptive and what you can do about them. I’m not just providing ‘top tips’ I’m going to give
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Punishments and Rewards don’t work, so don’t use them. This is the 3rd part of my series of blogs on behaviour. I have promised to talk more about how I became a relational practitioner. And I will get to that, but first let’s deal with punishments and rewards, and why they do not work to
Confessions of a recovering behaviourist Catrina Lowri is a neurodivergent teacher, trainer, and coach. As well as having 22 years’ experience of working in education, she also speaks as a dyslexic and bipolar woman, who had her own unique journey through the education system This is the second blog in the series called ‘ A controversial blog about
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Catrina Lowri is a neurodivergent teacher, trainer, and coach. As well as having 22 years’ experience of working in education, she also speaks as a dyslexic and bipolar woman, who had her own unique journey through the education system. I’m writing this by popular request. I’ve been reluctant. The topic is highly controversial, with many strong and
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Introduction: In today’s educational landscape, fostering inclusivity for staff with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is a crucial aspect of creating a supportive work environment for educators. As with pupils, there are 4 main categories of SEND in adults; physical, medical, and sensory needs, cognition and learning needs, communication and interaction needs and social,
SCHOOL AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS ‘Research from Ofsted finds poor relationships with parents can add significantly to low morale and poor wellbeing in teaching’ (Independent Education today, 2019). On reading this article by Julian Owen on the importance of school and parent relationships, I was compelled to put pen to paper – not only to reiterate
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How can adjusting the volume of information to process or produce help your neurodivergent learner? This may be one of the most controversial tips because, when I say ‘adjust the volume of information’, may will believe that I saying that either, our neurodivergent learners should work to a lower standard or that they are allowed
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The working memory is function of the mind and brain where we store pieces of information which we only need to remember for a short period of time. This may include pattern, sequences, codes or instructions. To give you a day-to-day example of this, imagine that you’ve got some kind of passcode from your
