ICT planning and assessing the curriculum for students with learning difficulties
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These documents were kindly provided by Ickburgh School, Hackney.
You can find them attached to this page
These documents were kindly provided by Deborah Moppett from Ickburgh School, Hackney.
You can find them attached to this page
A useful checklist from Sean Barr is attached below.
This document was kindly donated by Andrea Godlberdon from a document sent to the Becta SLD-forum her web site can be found here. The document is attached to this page.
A planning document from Deedmore school, Coventry
Following the INSET day on Individual Education Plans, the staff group agreed on the following format:
An example from Murphy Crescent School, an all age school for pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties.
Overview
Murphy Crescent School caters for pupils aged 2-19 with severe learning difficulties. At the time of writing the school has 30 pupils on role with almost 50% of pupils having profound and multiple learning difficulties.
Hardware
Contrary to popular belief computers do not hate teachers and do not have a life of their own. Don't be phased by the wires or the cost of the gear just think about what you want to teach your pupils. To avoid nervous breakdowns and frustrated kids bear the following in mind
Set up and try out the equipment before hand, this will always be time...
Prepare to be Dazzled!
Almost all children enjoy painting and colouring using the computer. Today's powerful computers can display thousands (sometimes millions) of colours and ever more sophisticated art packages are being developed with tools to create almost any...
Some simple ideas for using an interactive whiteboard with SLD / PMLD students.
The last couple of years has seen the introduction of (almost) affordable LCD projectors and interactive white boards into schools and colleges throughout the United Kingdom. While most schools have embraced this technology and the new teaching opportunities it affords, some,...
Programmed by Brilliant Computing and available from Granada Learning Semerc.
All activities can be used with touch screen or mouse. 'Catherine Wheel can also be used with a switch emulating the mouse buttons.
If I were ever asked to list my top five most useful computer programmes, the Touch Games series from Brilliant Computing would probably take the top spot. This...
The lesson plans and notes have been given to the Northern Grid so that shared resources can make teaching and learning easier. If you have any lesson plans that you may wish to share with others please let us know. The more resources we have the more useful it will be to busy teachers.
One of the problems with being a SENCO or a SEN co-ordinator is that you are somewhat isolated in your own institution. If you need to ask someone about a specific ICT problem which relates to SEN it can be difficult to find an expert locally. One of the best ways to get round this problem is to subscribe to one of the Internet email forums. This may sound daunting and it also sounds like...
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