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Resources and Publications

The Whole School SEND consortium regularly publishes resources to support you with all aspects of SEND. These include our SEND Review Guides and Frameworks, leaflets for parents, practical resources to support your work in educational settings, resources for specific contexts such as CPDL webinar recordings and more.

As a member of nasen and the Whole School SEND Member Community, you have free access to all of our resources – scroll through, use the filters or search for a specific resource. 

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Teaching is a lifetime of learning slide 1

Teaching is a lifetime of learning

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
Learning

To a great extent, good teaching for pupils with SEND, is good teaching for all.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
Lesson Plan Ideas

KS3 lesson planning ideas for a unit on Shakespeare’s

MindEd resources screenshot

MindEd Resources

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
mental health
wellbeing
,

Downloadable resources about the MindEd programme.

Sharing expertise Slide 1

Sharing expertise

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Mentor guide

A range of noticing; instructional approaches and adaptive strategies for the scenarios

Complex Scenario Rashid

Complex Scenario Rashid

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Sustaining engagement and challenge for Rashid.

I Spy

I Spy

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
mental health
SEMH

Ways of meeting children’s social, emotional and mental health needs.

Complex Scenario Tayla

Complex Scenario Tayla

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Exploring readiness to learn.

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Bell Curve Thinking: The Heart of the Matter

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
Animation
Bell Curve
Inclusion

An animation to show how bell curve thinking can be challenged, so that all children are at the heart of the teaching and learning in the classroom.

Complex Scenario Mae

Complex Scenario Mae

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Building stamina for learning.

Working with TAs front slide

Working with Teaching Assistants

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom
Partnerships
Teaching Assistants

In what ways do teaching assistants impact the learning in the classroom?

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Adopting an inclusive approach to pedagogy

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
Inclusion
Pedagogy
Research

“Which one research paper, study or blog post on SEND and inclusion should everybody read?”

Teacher Identity front slide

Teacher identity and inclusion

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Identity
Inclusion

Identity narratives for inclusion.

Noticing front slide

Noticing

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom

What is noticing and why is it important?

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Adaptive Skill – a commentary

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
Adaptive Teaching
Cognitive Psychology

Are we training teachers to develop ‘routine expertise’ or adaptive expertise?

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The language we use

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Language

The language we communicate through our words and our actions is a beacon for the learners we teach.

co-learning front slide

Co-learning with (and as) experts

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Adaptive

Our in-role expertise is not fixed, but develops as we learn and reflect.

Classroom environment front slide

Classroom Environment

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom

The importance of creating an inclusive environment that enables all learners to access the lesson and progress towards their individual learning targets.

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Adopting a graduated approach to pedagogy and practice

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Pedagogy

What is the teacher's role in adopting a graduated approach?

Access to Teaching

Access to Teaching

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Teacher Development
teaching

An important session to support trainees to better understand their own learning needs, known and previously unknown, as well as advice on seeking support to teach whilst appropriately managing a disability.

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Diagnosis is not enough: Research that shapes inclusive teaching

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
Diagnosis
Research
Working Memory

Why we should reconsider our strategies beyond a child’s diagnosis and plan our support based on their actual relative strengths and challenges.