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Planning for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) - Language, Speech and Neurodiversity - Secondary

This course delves deeper into how to adapt teaching to support all pupils’ education at different stages of development.

948 enrolled on this course

  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    10 hours
Overview
Requirements

Explore how to adapt your practice to support special educational needs

This course aims to develop your ability to adapt your practice and offer a variety of activities that retain pupil interest. It will support you in understanding the clinical needs of children and how this has an impact on planning, with a focus on children with English as an additional language (EAL) and language difficulties, Autism/Asperger’s, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

What topics will you cover?

  • Physical, social, emotional and intellectual development
  • What are EAL and speech and language difficulties?
  • Practical ways to ensure progress for pupils with EAL and speech and language difficulties
  • Challenges for native speakers
  • Phonics
  • Four pillars of classroom management
  • Ensuring content is engaging for emotional and intellectual development
  • Delivering positive motivation without drawing attention to pupils
  • Understanding, using and writing an Individual Education Plan (IEP)
  • How data differs for neurodiverse students
  • What are ADHD, Autism/Asperger’s and OCD?
  • Practical ways to ensure progress for neurodiverse pupils
  • Four pillars of classroom management

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Lead pupil progress, demonstrating knowledge of the physical, social and intellectual development of children
  • Improve and adapt teaching to support pupils’ education at different stages of development considering EAL strategies and the link to literacy scores, as well as challenges for native speakers
  • Apply and adapt practice to offer a variety of activities to retain pupil interest, with particular focus on children with EAL and language difficulties
  • Apply relevant data to plan delivery of content, plan how to monitor and record progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
  • Explain the clinical needs of children and how this impacts planning, for pupils with ASD, ADHD and OCD
  • Discuss and be able to write an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for a pupil

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for PGCE trainees.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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