1st Edition

Building Your Inclusive Classroom A Toolkit for Adaptive Teaching and Relational Practice

By Verity Lush Copyright 2024
190 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

190 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

190 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

Building Your Inclusive Classroom explores why we need to adapt our teaching – and our approaches to children and young people – and how this will support the achievement of everyone in the classroom, including the teacher. It will help educators in mainstream settings, across all key stages, to adapt not only their resources but also their approaches for children with Special Educational Needs... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Meeting Needs

Chapter 2: What are Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND)?

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Chapter 3: The What and the Why of Relational Approaches

Part 1: The ‘What’ of Relational Approaches

Part 2: The ‘Why’ of Relational Approaches

Chapter 4: The ‘How’ of Relational Approaches. Four Core Approaches with which to Build Your Foundation

Part 1: Emotional Intelligence· 

Part 2:  Nurture·   

Part 3: Restorative (or Relational) Practice·

Part 4: PACE: Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy

 

Chapter 5: Evidence-Based Adaptive Teaching and How to Do It·    

Part 1: Evidence-Based Recommendations for Adaptive Teaching

Part 2: Practical Ideas for Adaptive Teaching 

Part 3: Using Playfulness (PACE) to Adapt Planning and Resources

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Chapter 6: A Need-To-Know Basis: Pulling it All Together

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Chapter 7: What About the Adults? Parents, Carers and Support Staff

A Final Word

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Index

Biography

Verity Lush is a SENDCO within a mainstream all-through school (ages 4-16). She has been teaching for 20 years but it was upon joining a specialist SEND provision in 2014 that she became a passionate advocate for children with SEND. Verity’s current school is set within a diverse, inner-city area, in a school that now feels like family to her. She firmly believes that relationships are at the core of everything.