As part of our Community of Practice offer, we have produced a number of resources and delivered a number of free training sessions. The resources and recordings of webinars can be found below listed by the headings used across the SEND Exhibition website.
Working in the sector
Learning support workers
Safe working practices: a guide for learning support workers. This guide providing strategies that can be employed for different performance criteria within the National Occupational Standards for learning support staff, and an activity so that they can assess their working practices.
Teaching and learning
General
Engaging the hardest to reach learners This webinar explored how to get the hardest to reach learners to engage with learning and shared effective strategies used at Weston College.
Personalised Study Programmes A series of videos from learners and staff at DCG to explain what personalised study programmes and the benefits to individuals. The videos are used to help new learners, parents and carers see that they will be fully supported at the college.
Supporting learners with transition, how do you prepare your learners? CCN produced this transition video for their learners who have found it really useful to help them to settle into college life and Weston college provided a chance to explore the use of 3D interactive tours to assist learners manage their anxiety around transition to the college environment.
Digital Learning
Keeping Safe Online This training resource for Entry Level learners has been created in PowerPoint by CCN and covers passwords, personal information, what you say, socialising, bullying, sharing feelings and sharing photos.
You can access an online version of the Keeping Safe Online resource to use in a classroom or for your students to use remotely on the CCN website.
Inclusive Digital Learning This webinar explored the opportunities and challenges in supporting learners with complex learning needs.
Maths, English and ESOL
Making maths and English everyone's business. In this webinar, Weston College's share their approachws to engaging everyone in the development of learners' maths and English skills.
Leadership and management
Funding
This Access to Work new process presentation explains the processes required when claiming Access to Work funding, as at the time of creation October 2020.
Staff Development
Approaches to effective Learning Support. This document, created by Cfity College Norwich, outlines approach taken of effectively utilising the National Occupational Standards to ensure cohesion and focus for our community of learning support.
Developing effective CPD programmes for SEND staff. In this webinar, Weston College shared how invest in members of staff to reach their full potential, allowing them to develop into outstanding SEND professionals.They explore CPD options and provide successful case studies.
Managing mental health in crisis webinar shares Weston Colege's approach to the management of mental health of both students and staff. During the webinar they introduce their Body and Mind policy, how they've changed the culture within the organisation and how they've developed a mental health specialist support model.
Raising the profile and status of SEND specialists. A webinar in partnership with National Star College. The essential skills managers require were explored, with a focus on self-evaluation and how managers can use the guidance contained in the SEND Code of Practice as checklist for audit.
