Inclusive Primary Teaching: A critical approach to equality and special educational needs and disability (Critical Teaching) - Softcover

Goepel, Janet; Childerhouse, Helen; Sharpe, Sheila

 
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This is an invaluable and fully updated text on inclusive practice for all primary trainees and teachers and for those working towards the National Award SEN Co-ordination. It provides an equality- and child-centred approach to inclusion, combining both theory and practice while promoting critical thinking about the complex issues involved. Scenarios are used as the basis for unpicking major topics and provide opportunities for learning in context, while questions and reflections encourage deep thinking about key learning points. This second edition has been fully revised throughout and now includes:
• full reference to the new Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice (2014) as well as the Children and Families Act (2014) and Behaviour2Learn
• two completely new chapters on understanding learners who are vulnerable and
understanding learners with communication difficulties
• extended thinking activities and extended reflections to support M-level study
• an improved organisation with emphasis on the national priorities.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Janet Goepel has been a teacher for many years and developed an interest in special educational needs through having children with additional needs in her class. She has taught children with profound and multiple learning difficulties who otherwise would have had to attend a special school. She has also taught children with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD as well as children who have social difficulties. Working with these childrenwas rewarding as well as challenging, taught her a great deal and changed her practice as a teacher. She now teaches Inclusion at Sheffield Hallam University and hopes to pass on her passion for inclusive practice to trainee teachers.

Helen Childerhouse is a senior lecturer in primary and early years teacher education at Sheffield Hallam University. She teaches on undergraduate modules that involve professional practice and supports trainees whilst they are on placement. She also teaches on the modules which focus on inclusive practice.

Sheila Sharpe is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Her roles include Course Leader for the PG Cert Senco award and the Inclusion co-ordinator for the undergraduate and post graduate Primary and Early Years Teacher Education Programme. She has wide school experience in primary, infant and nursery schools in two local authorities, and has taught children from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures with a range of learning and emotional needs. She has been a SENCO in a primary school which provided insight in to the tensions that exist in schools surrounding inclusive education. She has also worked in an advisory capacity in a local authority giving support to teachers and schools for provision in meeting language and literacy needs of children. Her research interests are in enquiry-led learning for children and trainees.



Janet Goepel has been a teacher for many years and developed an interest in special educational needs through having children with additional needs in her class. She has taught children with profound and multiple learning difficulties who otherwise would have had to attend a special school. She has also taught children with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD as well as children who have social difficulties. Working with these childrenwas rewarding as well as challenging, taught her a great deal and changed her practice as a teacher. She now teaches Inclusion at Sheffield Hallam University and hopes to pass on her passion for inclusive practice to trainee teachers.

Helen Childerhouse is a senior lecturer in primary and early years teacher education at Sheffield Hallam University. She teaches on undergraduate modules that involve professional practice and supports trainees whilst they are on placement. She also teaches on the modules which focus on inclusive practice.

Sheila Sharpe is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Her roles include Course Leader for the PG Cert Senco award and the Inclusion co-ordinator for the undergraduate and post graduate Primary and Early Years Teacher Education Programme. She has wide school experience in primary, infant and nursery schools in two local authorities, and has taught children from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures with a range of learning and emotional needs. She has been a SENCO in a primary school which provided insight in to the tensions that exist in schools surrounding inclusive education. She has also worked in an advisory capacity in a local authority giving support to teachers and schools for provision in meeting language and literacy needs of children. Her research interests are in enquiry-led learning for children and trainees.

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Inclusive Primary Teaching

A Critical Approach to Equality and Special Educational Needs and Disability

By Janet Goepel, Helen Childerhouse, Sheila Sharpe

Critical Publishing Ltd

Copyright © 2015 Janet Goepel, Helen Childerhouse and Sheila Sharpe
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-910391-38-9

Contents

List of acronyms,
Meet the authors,
Introduction,
Part 1 Developing inclusive environments,
1 Understanding policy,
2 The inclusive classroom,
3 The inclusive curriculum,
Part 2 Making reasonable adjustments,
4 Understanding learners with Special Educational Needs and Disability,
5 Understanding learners with English as an additional language,
6 Understanding behaviour,
7 Understanding identity and gender,
8 Understanding race,
9 Understanding learners in poverty,
10 Understanding learners who are vulnerable,
11 Understanding learners with communication difficulties,
Part 3 Developing partnerships,
12 Working with children,
13 Working with parents,
14 Working with colleagues,
15 Working with outside agencies,
Appendix Teachers' Standards,
Index,


CHAPTER 1

Understanding policy


Introduction

The current emphasis in our schools is on standards and how well children achieve. This is driven largely through the framework set out by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). This framework assesses a school against national standards and provides information for parents on how well the school is performing in order for them to make informed choices regarding schools for their children. The inspection process deliberately sets out to drive up standards of effectiveness and performance and to promote rigour in the way a school assesses and monitors its own performance and its capacity to improve. Assessment focuses on the achievement of pupils, the quality of the teaching, the behaviour and safety of the children, as well as the quality of the leadership and management of the school (Ofsted, 2013, p 5). Schools can no longer receive an Ofsted judgement of 'satisfactory'. Schools offering an 'acceptable' standard of education can be considered to be 'good', whereas schools which are not yet 'good' but not considered to be 'inadequate' are considered to 'require improvement'. Other categories which schools may be allocated are 'serious weaknesses' and 'special measures' (Ofsted, 2013, pp 5–6). Many teachers feel the pressure of impending inspections at one day's notice. If you have been into placement schools near or during the time of inspection you will be aware of the impact that this has on teachers.

Alongside the constant drive for achievement is the push towards the inclusion of all pupils. The 1997 Green Paper Excellence for all Children: Meeting Special Educational Needs was a commitment by the Labour government to improve the statutory framework for children with special educational needs (SEN). This was followed by other guidance and legislation such as:

• the SEN Code of Practice (SENCoP) (DfES, 2001);

• the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001;

• the Equality Act 2010 (UK Government, 2010);

• most recently, the Children and Families Act 2014;

• and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice 0–25 years (DfE, 2015).


All of this policy and guidance presents the teacher with the dilemma of needing to provide inclusion for all children, while at the same time driv

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