Table Of ContentThe SEN
SEN Handbook for
Handbook
Teachers
for Trainee Teachers,
Text
NQTs and Teaching Assistants
prelims
Accessibly written with the needs of trainee teachers and Higher Level Teaching
Assistants in mind, this new edition of Wendy Spooner’s popular SEN Handbook
provides an up-to-the-minute introduction to key issues.
Student teachers and teaching assistants will find the case studies and vignettes
invaluable as they bring these issues to life and present important opportunities
for reflection on how these issues relate to practice.
Core standards for teachers, QTS and HLTA qualifications are highlighted,
enabling readers to understand exactly what is expected of them – and how to
achieve it. Coverage includes:
(cid:2) Self-assessment of your own attitudes towards SEN issues
(cid:2) Legal definitions and current legislation and guidance
(cid:2) Identification, assessment and support for children with SEN across the
key stages
(cid:2) Issues of inclusion and exclusion
(cid:2) A range of teaching approaches and strategies
(cid:2) School-based training and SEN issues that may arise
(cid:2) Further reading, websites and resources lists.
Practical and comprehensive, this is an invaluable resource for all teaching profes-
sionals working towards providing inclusive learning environments.
Wendy Spoonerhas been a teacher in primary, secondary and special schools and
a university lecturer on ITT courses. She is now a freelance education consultant.
Other titles published in association with the National Association for Special Educational
Needs (nasen):
The SENCO Survival Guide: The Nuts and Bolts of Everything you Need to Know
Sylvia Edwards
978-0-415-59280-2 (HB)
978-0-415-59281-9 (PB)
Young People with Anti-Social Behaviours: Practical Resources for Professionals
Kathy Hampson
978-0-415-56570-7
Confronting Obstacles to Inclusion: International Responses to Developing Inclusive
Education
Richard Rose
978-0-415-49361-1 (HB)
978-0-415-49363-5 (PB)
Supporting Children’s Reading: A Complete Short Course for Teaching Assistants, Volunteer
Helpers and Parents
Margaret Hughes and Peter Guppy
978-0-415-49836-4
Beating Bureaucracy in Special Educational Needs
Jean Gross
978-0-415-44114-8
A Handbook for Inclusion Managers: Steering your School towards Inclusion
Ann Sydney
978-0-415-49197-6 (HB)
978-0-415-49198-3 (PB)
Teaching Foundation Mathematics: A Guide for Teachers of Older Students with Learning
Disabilities
Nadia Naggar-Smith
978-0-415-45164-2
Dyspraxia in the Early Years: Identifying and Supporting Children with Movement Difficulties,
Second edition
Christine Macintyre
978-0-415-47684-3
Dyspraxia 5-14: Identifying and Supporting Young People with Movement Difficulties, S econd
edition
Christine Macintyre
978-0-415-54397-2 (HB)
978-0-415-54396-5 (PB)
Living with Dyslexia: The Social and Emotional Consequences of Specific Learning
Difficulties/Disabilities, Second edition
Barbara Riddick
978-0-415-47758-1
The S E N
Handbook
for Trainee Teachers,
NQTs and
Teaching Assistants
Seco nd Edition
Wendy Spooner
This second edition published 2011
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX144RN
Simultaneously published in the USAand Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY10016
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2011.
To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s
collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.
© 2011 Wendy Spooner
The right of Wendy Spooner to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her
in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or
by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spooner, Wendy.
The SENhandbook for trainee teachers, NQTs and teaching assistants / Wendy
Spooner. – 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliograph ical references and index.
1. Special education teachers–Great Britain. 2. Children with disabilities–Education–Great Britain.
I. Title. I. Title: Special educational needs handbook for trainee teachers, NQTs and
teaching assistants.
LC3986.G7S72011
371.90941–dc22
2010020902
ISBN 0-203-83865-3 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN13: 978–0–415–56771–8 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–203–83865–5 (ebk)
nasen is a professional membership association which supports all those who
work with or care for children and young people with special and additional edu-
cational needs. Members include teachers, teaching assistants, support workers,
other educationalists, students and parents.
nasen supports its members through policy documents, journals, its magazine
Special!, publications, professional development courses, regional networks and
newsletters. Its website contains more current information such as responses to
government consultations. nasen’s published documents are held in very high
regard both in the UK and internationally.
To the two Mikes, without whom this book
would never have been written.
Contents
Forewordby Richard Rose x
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction xiii
Part 1: Legislation, Frameworks and Issues
1. What are special educational needs? 3
2. The SEN Code of Practice and current legislation 12
3. The range of needs 19
4. Identification, assessment and support 33
5. Issues of inclusion and exclusion 48
Part 2: Developing your Practice
6. Teaching and learning 59
7. Teaching approaches and strategies 68
8. School-based training and early professional experience 83
Appendix A: Standards information 99
Appendix B: Individual Education Plans 101
Appendix C: Acronyms 103
Resources and further reading 104
References 115
Index 117
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