Faculty of Education

Secondary Warehouse

Q19 Additional Education Needs

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Documents
Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status - Help Guide
Within this document you will find useful ideas to help you with the QTS standards.
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Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties - General guidelines
These guidelines published by DfEE and QCA support the planning, development and implementation of the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties. The guidelines can be used with the school’s own material, the National Curriculum and the frameworks for teaching literacy and mathematics.
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Media Files
Secondary Special Needs: Back in the Mainstream
Shoeburyness High School in Southend-on-Sea has developed a fresh approach to supporting children with special needs in a mainstream school. In Year 7, those children who find transfer to secondary particularly difficult are taught in a small single class called the achievement group. They are supported with a curriculum differentiated to meet their needs which is delivered by primary-trained teachers.
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Secondary Special Needs: Success and Self Esteem
At Sackville Community College in East Grinstead, the Special Needs department are developing strategies for less academic students to succeed. This film follows their work and looks at how the Year 11 STAR (Students to Achieve Results) group work on a reduced curriculum alongside vocational and certificated courses.
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