Cognitive Overload Strategies
Staff training powerpoint around cognitive overload and strategies that can be used to support students, especially those with lower academic ability and special educational needs. Practical activity and then links to a variety of subject areas.
SEND Adaptations Handbook - Cognition and Learning
The perfect aid for a teacher in support SEND within the classroom! With QFT being a platinum thread through education, this guide provides teachers with a comprehensive list of potential barriers to learning they might see in the classroom, wave 1 suggestions to try and resources to use and also wave 2/3 interventions to use if needed.
Contains information surrounding
Reading
Writing and Spelling
Mathematics
Working memory and processing
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Schizophrenia: Cognitive Explanation
AQA B A Level Psychology
Whole lesson - Cognitive explanation for Schizophrenia.
Cognition & Learning Toolkit
This toolkit provides information on how to support the needs of pupils with SEN/EHCPs in the classroom as part of a quality first teaching approach. Each section links to one of the four broad areas of need.
You will find:
Cognition & learning
• Categories of potential difficulty within that need.
-Memory
-Task Organisation, Maintenance and Completion Skills
-Concentration
-Transferring/Generalising Learning
-Time Management
-Self-Assessment Skills
-Information Processing
-Letter and/or Number Recognition and Recording
-Phonic Application
-Spelling:High Frequency Words and Phonetically Irregular Words
-Reading Accuracy
-Reading Comprehension
-Learning and Application of Number Facts
-Organising Ideas for Writing
-Developing Writing (Letter Formation)
• What that area of difficulty might look like in the classroom.
• Supportive quality first teaching strategies that will offer support.
Each list of ‘What it might look like?’ and ‘Supportive Quality First Teaching Strategies’ are not exhaustive but may provide a useful starting point to help you help your pupils access learning. At the end of each section are resources linked to some of the strategies.
The Toolkit can be edited and new needs and provisions can be added to meet the needs of your students.
AO2 Cognitive Explanations
A sheet with content to get AO2 marks on an essay on cognitive explanations
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Making models and modifying science equipment for blind and visually impaired students
This is a help sheet for teachers and learning support staff of blind and visually impaired students. There are several ideas for biological models and several ideas for modifying practical equipment to allow tactile access.
Self-Assessment and Meta-Cognition Activities for World Language
Paying attention to the learning process helps learners improve, and that’s what these tools are for. These research-based self-assessment resources let students learn how to help themselves improve, particularly in speaking and listening activities. There are also tools to help you give feedback. Included in this bundle of resources are the following:
• Listening Guide
• Presentational Speech Self-Assessment
• Speaking Activity Teacher Assessment
• Speaking Activity Self-Assessment
• Emotional Temperature Chart
• Speaking Focus Signs
Team Building for SEN
Included in this pack are 6 detailed lesson plans that aim to develop team building amongst pupils with moderate to severe learning difficulties.
This resource has been used with a variety of SEND students particularly visual impairment, cognitive delay, physical impairment through CP, SLD and ASD. This topic would also work well with primary aged pupils.
The resource includes 6 individualized lessons plans. They offer the students an introduction to the world of team building and orienteering. Activities with a parachute are included with lessons lasting 30-40 minutes (excluding changing).
The 6 lessons have a focus comprised with practical activities. They are:
Working together
Problem Solving
Leadership
Cooperation
Planning and Communication
Consolidation of skills
BTEC L3 Unit 12 Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs LAA
This is a large complete resource package for the delivery of the BTEC Level 3 Unit 12 - Supporting Individuals with Additional Needs Learning Aim A, A1, A2, A3 and A4. This package includes a 52 page Word booklet that can be adapted and altered to suit your teaching needs. It allows students to organise their notes and assignment planning, in one place. There are activities, research task and application, signposting learners to understand the assessment criteria.
To aid understanding, during delivery, there are ELEVEN powerpoints and relevant videos to engage learners. The package covers the below topics, in the Learning Aim A spec.A: Examine Reasons why individuals may experience additional needs
A1 Diagnosing or determining additional needs
• Definitions of mild, moderate, severe and profound learning disabilities.
• Diagnostic procedures, tools and standards used to diagnose a disability.
• Professional background, qualifications and experience of those undertaking the diagnosis and assessment.
• Parameters used to describe the diagnosed condition. This must include the type, causation, severity and stability over time, and prognosis of the condition.
A2 Cognitive and learning needs
• Learning difficulties, to include dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Autism-spectrum disorders, to include Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and childhood disintegrative disorder.
• Inherited conditions, to include Down’s syndrome, Huntington’s disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s.
• Needs of older people, to include memory loss, slower cognitive speed, life-long learning.
A3 Physical and health needs
• Needs of older people, to include arthritis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• Health needs, to include physical needs cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disorders, stroke a mental illnesses.
• Sensory disabilities, to include deafness and hearing impairment, visual impairment.
• Accidents, to include paraplegia, loss of limb.
• Infectious diseases that can lead to individuals having additional needs.
• Problems during pregnancy and birth that can lead to individuals having additional needs.
A4 Social and emotional needs
• Needs generated from family circumstances, to include specific needs of looked-after children, bereavement, school refuser (non-attendance) and bullying.
• Needs generated by being elderly, to include loss of loved ones, fear of dying, family far away, isolation, lack of money.
• Needs affected by the learning environment.
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BUDDHISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT
BUDDHISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT will spark students’ curiosity and critical thinking. It’s engaging, scaffolded for accessibility and challenging for academic rigour. It is easy to deliver for specialists and non-specialists alike and requires minimal printing and preparation.
YOUR STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
Explain Buddhist attitudes towards the environment: ahimsa, interconnectedness, precepts, reincarnation (with reference to sacred writing)
CONTAINS ALL THE FEATURES OF AN EXCELLENT LESSON:
Do Now retrieval of critical content for this lesson
Tasks broken down to prevent cognitive overload
Checks whole class understanding using miniboards or cold call
Extra challenges throughout
information sheet to promote independence (large font for visually impaired)
Independent practice task:
• Past exam question `
• Clear success criteria with a focus and modelling of development
• Writing frames
• Relevant sacred writing
• Key Vocabulary
I hope you enjoy delivering this lesson. Feedback is welcome.
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Disability and Neurodiversity - Physical Disabilities
This is episode 6 of a Disability and Neurodiversity Training series, outlining terminology, the student experience, approaches, and debunking stereotypes about visual impairments, deafness, and mobility impairments. This is ideal for teacher training, basic education, and general interest :)
Magnetism and electromagnetism SEND
These are magnetism and electromagnetism wordsearches adapted to lower ability students and visually impaired students. Letters are larger and there are only 15 words in the lower ability sheet with the simplest words.
Wordsearches are an excellent tool to develop and improve scientific vocabulary. Students should be encouraged to work together and say the words aloud to ensure they are internalised,
The sheet suitable for students with visual impairment (SEND) has good contrast colours (black and yellow), recommended font ARIAL size of 14.
They are suitable for students aged from 7 -15 for all curriculum
SEN TRAITS AND STRATEGIES
This comes with 2 resources!
One is a powerpoint of all the info and one is a word doc that is ‘bookmarks’
Common traits and teaching strategies for:
Asperger’s Syndrome
Autism
ADHD/ADD
Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Dyspraxia
Visually Impaired
Hearing Impaired
Speech/Language
Reading
Handwriting
You can add any others!
Learning to Take Turns - Skill Development Program - Turntaking!
This is a one page handout which provides numerous strategies to support an individual to learn to take turns. This is a great handout for parents, carers and/or other allied health professionals. This resource has been very valuable and beneficial in supporting children with learning difficulties, cognitive impairments and/or intellectual disabilities to learn how to take turns.
The Smartest Giant in Town – Symbol Supported Story for SEND
Hi, here is another – Symbol Supported Story for SEND (Widget Style)
This resource provides a symbol-supported version of The Smartest Giant in Town to support pupils with SEND, autism, speech and language needs, and emerging readers.
The story has been adapted using clear, consistent symbols alongside simplified text to support comprehension, vocabulary development and sentence structure.
This resource is suitable for:
EYFS and KS1
Pupils working below age-related expectations
Autism / ASC
Speech, language and communication needs
EAL learners
Includes:
Symbol-supported story pages
Clear visual layout
Reduced cognitive load text
Print-ready PDF
Ideal for:
1:1 reading
Small group intervention
Pre-teaching vocabulary
Whole-class story access with SEND adaptations
Designed to help pupils access a well-loved classroom text with greater independence and confidence.
Wh- Question Bingo
Responding to who, what, where, when, and why questions can be extremely challenging for children with autism, cognitive impairments, or speech disorders. Practice answering questions using these fun bingo games! Using visuals, multiple examples, and structure will allow students to learn this skill successfully with this resource!
This product contains:
- Who Bingo
- What Bingo
- Where Bingo
- When Bingo
- Why Bingo
- Wh- Mix Up {containing who, what, where, when, & why questions}
Each game contains 16 calling cards & 10 playing boards! 6 separate bingo games are included in this set!
Working on each wh- question in isolation will allow students to identifying the patterning in responding. The wh- mix up game will help teach discrimination!
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Telling the Time Books 1-3
These worksheets support and consolidate practical work on telling the time from analogue and digital clock faces. They are suitable for a wide age range from Reception to KS3, and for a wide range of abilities. The clear layout and simple, illustrated instructions enable independent work. Book A covers recognising clock faces, telling the time to hours and telling the time to half hours. Book B covers telling the time to quarter hours, and includes a full-colour bingo game for you to make. Book C covers telling the time to five minutes, then minutes, with 3 pages dealing with a.m. and p.m. (Practical note: within the book sheets are in the following order: analogue times, digital times, analogue/digital times.) Previously available through Easylearn.
Telling the Time Book A: Time to Hours and Half Hours
Worksheets to support and consolidate practical work on telling the time from analogue and digital clock faces. Suitable for a wide age range from Reception to KS3, and for a wide range of abilities. The clear layout and simple, illustrated instructions enable independent work. This book covers recognising clock faces, telling the time to hours and telling the time to half hours. Previously available through Easylearn. Two more books available.
Numbers and the Number System Workbook - Functional Skills Maths - Entry Level 3
This resource has been designed for students working towards Functional Skills Maths qualifications at Entry Level 3 (Edexcel-Pearson, NCFE, City and Guilds, NOCN and Open Awards). It contains an age-appropriate, 60-page workbook on using numbers and the number system.
The workbook will help pupils to achieve these outcomes:
count, read, write, order, compare numbers to 1000
approximate by rounding numbers less than 1000 to nearest 10 or 100 to check results
recognise and continue linear sequences of numbers up to 100
The 60-page workbook contains 15 information pages, 41 worksheets, 3 progress checks and a certificate of achievement. It is provided in PDF format and an editable PowerPoint version. It can be used for classwork, homework, revision or as an independent learning pack.
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Entry Level 3 - Numbers and the Number System - 140 Slide Powerpoint Lesson
The editable PowerPoint lesson explains the number system and how to read, write, order and compare numbers to 1000. It explains rounding to 10 and 100 and shows how rounding and estimation can be used to check calculations in real-life contexts. It also contains links to several videos on the number system, place value, rounding, estimation and example exam questions. It is an ideal resource to introduce this component of the functional skills specification and for revision purposes.
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Entry Level 3 - Numbers and the Number System - Powerpoint Lesson and Workbook
Level 1 - Numbers and The Number System Bundle
Level 1 - Measures, Shape, Space Bundle
Level 1 - Handling Information and Data Bundle
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Position and Direction - Functional Skills Maths - Entry Level 3 - PowerPoint Lesson and Workbook
This resource has been designed for students working towards Functional Skills Maths qualifications at Entry Level 3 (Edexcel-Pearson, NCFE, City and Guilds and Open Awards). It contains an age-appropriate, 34-page workbook and a 90 Slide PowerPoint lesson on using appropriate positional vocabulary to describe position and direction including eight compass points and full/half/quarter turns.
These resources will help pupils to achieve these outcomes:
use appropriate positional vocabulary to describe position and direction
understand and use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise to describe movement and direction
understand and use the eight compass points to describe position and direction
use quarter turns, three-quarter turns, half turns and full turns to describe movement and direction
apply knowledge of position and direction to solve real-life problems
Workbook
The 34-page workbook contains 6 information pages, 25 worksheets (with answers), 2 progress checks and a certificate of achievement. It is available in PDF format and an editable PowerPoint version. The workbook can be used for classwork, homework, revision or as an independent learning pack.
PowerPoint Lesson
The editable, 90 Slide PowerPoint lesson provides many opportunities for pupils to develop their knowledge and understanding of position and direction and to apply this knowledge to solve real-life problems. The PowerPoint has links to a short video on movement and direction and example exam questions. It is ideal for introducing the position and direction component of the specification and for revision purposes.
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Level 1 - Numbers and The Number System Bundle
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