The SENDcast Ensuring Access to High Quality Teaching with Natalie Packer
Jan 28, 2021
Natalie Packer, an independent education consultant specializing in SEND, shares insights on ensuring all children have access to high-quality teaching. She emphasizes the importance of teacher responsibility for SEND and the link to effective practices. Topics include assessing true learning, the balance of challenge and flow in lessons, and the pivotal role of engagement. Natalie also highlights strategies for maximizing teaching assistant impact and the need for a whole-school approach to create inclusive environments.
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Teaching Quality Has Large Impact
- High-quality teaching can produce five to six months' extra progress compared to poor teaching.
- The effect is often larger for vulnerable pupils, making teaching quality especially critical for SEND.
Use A Teaching 'Jigsaw' Of Core Elements
- Start lessons with high expectations and know each pupil's strengths and barriers.
- Use engagement, scaffolding, questioning and independence-building as consistent lesson elements.
Balance Challenge To Achieve 'Flow'
- True engagement sits where challenge matches pupils' current skills (flow).
- Balance challenge and support so tasks are absorbingly attainable rather than too easy or impossible.