Supporting SEND Students
Create inclusive classrooms that support the learning of everyone, including students with SEND.
How do we best support all of our students? How do we make a truly inclusive environment that supports the learning of everyone? The challenges that learners face are becoming more complex, but by drawing on the latest research along with practical and tangible strategies, this workshop will ensure your staff feel more confident in supporting SEND students.
Covering key topics such as Adaptive Teaching, Retrieval Practice, nurture, scaffolding, attachment, Cognitive Load Theory and Metacognition, we will explore what adaptations can be made to great teaching principles.
This workshop will help teachers to:
- Feel more confident supporting SEND students
- Create an inclusive environment that challenges all students
- Practical strategies to maximise learning for all
Supporting SEND Students – Key messages
The SEND landscape
- The changing environment
- A complex and nuanced look at what we mean by SEND
- Pupil premium, SEND and EHCPs
Retrieval Practice
- Should you Cold-Call SEND students?
- Extended wait times and why it matters
- Low-stakes quizzing
Adaptive Teaching
- Teaching to the top
- Helping all students get started on a task
- Pre-teaching, prompt fading and scaffolding support
Cognitive Load
- The limitations of working memory
- Connecting new information to prior knowledge
- The redundancy effect and maximising visual support
Ongoing Teacher Training
If you are a Teacher CPD Coordinator, don’t forget the perfect ongoing training for your staff: our Teacher CPD Academy. It’s a one-stop online platform that will help you design and populate the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.


