Work Placement At Lift, Being Artist Liaison Artist At Gdif, Greenwich + Docklands International Festival

You are about to go on work experience at a training centre for young adults with learning disabilities. Some of the young adults also

Currently, I am a Personal Care Instructional Aide for a nonverbal Down Syndrome student at West Hempfield Elementary. I work hand and hand with the special education teacher to devise lesson plans to suit the needs of my student. I am responsible for implementing the lesson plans one-on-one with my student in Language Arts, Mathematics, and social skills interactions daily. On a daily basis, I am also responsible for molding and shaping my student's behaviors and prompt when necessary. Working in the learning support room has taught me a variety of ways to incorporate differentiated instruction to suit the needs of all students. It has also shown me the type of teacher I should be, a teacher who adapts content to meet the needs of all learners and the importance of inclusion.

The special educational needs (SEN) team are supported by a very active group who make sure that they provide a range of activities to meet the needs of our ever growing community of special schools, as well as colleagues in mainstream primary and secondary schools.

I have distinctly applied for Special Needs Education because special education has always been what’s near and dear to me in the field of education. Being a special education teacher would be an inevitably rewarding job, in which I get to watch my students grow, as I celebrate their small breakthroughs and victories with them. These small breakthroughs and victories will improve over time and turn into giant leaps, which will leave a lasting impact and ultimately change the child’s life. Beyond just educating children with special needs, I aspire to educate the public about children with special needs and special education. By doing so, I hope to remove any uncertainty and fear the public has on this group of children. Not only do I want to impart knowledge on these special children, I also want to advocate for them, which is something that goes

The special educational needs (SEN) team are supported by a very active group who make sure that they provide a range of activities to meet the needs of our ever growing community of special schools, as well as colleagues in mainstream primary and secondary schools.

Adults working with SEN children spend the majority of their time supporting that child however sometimes it’s the practitioners that needs the support. The role of the practitioners can be hard work and isn’t taken lightly, the practitioner needs support from other people around them to help promote their confidence and provide the correct provision for the children. A helpful support to practitioners could be the charity Mencap. Mencap work in partnership with people with a learning disability and all our services support people to live life as they choose.

As an early years practitioner we aim to support the development of practice in promoting young children’s creativity and creative learning within the setting. Monitoring and evaluation help to ensure that the setting’s policies and procedures are working in practice and that opportunities for creativity and creative learning provided have the desired effect. Evaluation is also a way of communicating with providers of grants or funds about the work of the setting. Evaluation involves looking at the work of the setting, how the work was done and what the results were. It provides the opportunity to review the work of the setting, to make any necessary adjustments or improvements and to celebrate success. As an early years practitioner, we may be involved in evaluating the setting’s practice in promoting young children’s creativity and creative learning. To do this effectively we need to select realistic methods for evaluating the setting’s practice. W will need to discuss and agree these evaluation methods with the relevant members of staff.

Through working with 0-2 year olds it has provided me with opportunities and experience to acknowledge children’s needs by finding ways to communicate through body language. By having opportunities to extend by knowledge via different courses has allowed me to extend my knowledge. Although I have gained a

The special educational needs (SEN) team are supported by a very active group who make sure that they provide a range of activities to meet the needs of our ever growing community of special schools, as well as colleagues in mainstream primary and secondary schools. Their aim is to work together to ensure good practice to promote effective approaches to enhance the students learning with Special educational needs.

Whilst all of my previous work experience has been voluntary work, the skills I gained from them all is invaluable. Working within a school has helped develop my professional persona and strengthened my ability to remain calm and focused when working under pressure. Similar skills were gained from working for ChildLine, which also helped further my communication, problem-solving and team working skills. Meanwhile, working in the

* To ensure all learners are included in activities, I devise different ways of getting everyone in the room involved –differentiation. Topics of employability can be sensitive because there will be people in the room who’ve had bad experienced such as redundancy or treated badly by the

This ensures children can have access to reach their potential in a safe environment. My placement has a member of staff who is the named SENCO who will work alongside parents, staff and professionals to assess the child’s strengths, development and plan for any further

By learning the community (SMI) population and how they have been systematically oppressed. Looking at staff misconceptions and cognitive distortions, which is a challenge. This understanding will open staff eyes to the world of the client. This understanding will help the client know this is not their fault, unfortunately, it is by design that they are in the position they are in. This can be accomplished by staff learning how to actively listen, while interacting with the client. Learning not to talk at them but with

Now, I have gained competencies to manage and educate learner’s belonging to multiple age groups and cultures, from multidisciplinary professionals to primary school

This essay will discuss the term - learning disability or (learning difficulties – a term sometimes used interchangeably) and some possible causes. The nature and role of advocacy as a part of the empowerment process will also be considered. All these will be done in relation to Kelly – a person with Down’s syndrome as a case study. It will explain the progress made with Kelly by her support workers and how these can be further developed to ensure a more independent and meaningful life.