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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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Complex Scenario Rashid

Complex Scenario Rashid

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Sustaining engagement and challenge for Rashid.

Teacher Identity front slide

Teacher identity and inclusion

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Identity
Inclusion
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Identity narratives for inclusion.

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Introduction: A permeated approach

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
Adaptive Teaching
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This slide deck can be used by ITT Providers with their teams of ITE Tutors and school mentors to show how adopting a permeated curriculum approach to teaching about special educational needs as part of ITT is needed.

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The Importance of Literacy Education for All – The Teach Us Too Perspective.

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
literacy

A video about "Teach Us Too", a charity promoting the right for all children to be taught to read and write, whatever their label or diagnosis.

Adopting a graduated approach front slide

Adopting a graduated approach to pedagogy and practice

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Pedagogy
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What is the teacher's role in adopting a graduated approach?

Complex Scenario Mae

Complex Scenario Mae

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Building stamina for learning.

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Adopting an inclusive approach to pedagogy

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

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

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The teacher I think I am affects the teacher I can be. I am a teacher of everyone.

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
Identity

If you are asked to describe your teacher identity, you may find this difficult to articulate. However, if someone asks you what you think is important to the role of a teacher, you would probably be able to give an answer without too much delay.

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.

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 Tayla

Complex Scenario Tayla

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Exploring readiness to learn.

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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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.

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MindEd Resources

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
mental health
wellbeing
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Downloadable resources about the MindEd programme.

Complex Scenario Tomas

Complex Scenario Tomas

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Supporting engagement and social development.

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Teaching needs adaptive expertise now more than ever

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
Adaptive Teaching
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Teacher Development

The pandemic has opened up the debate about what it means to be vulnerable in education and who might ‘struggle to learn’.

crochet

Talking head: The moment I realised I couldn’t really crochet!

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
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Learning
Working Memory

Supporting a child to recognise the aspect of a task that they don’t know, but which would make a difference to them moving forward, is an important first step.

The language front slide

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.

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

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Inclusivity – A constant journey toward a shared vision

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
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Inclusion
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Despite working in inclusion for years, it’s still easy to assume a shared understanding of the term, thinking that people know what we mean when we talk about it, but surprising how often these assumptions are misjudged.