People often ask ” what were the main trends you saw in children with Complex Needs through your research?’ This Executive Summary may offer some useful signposts.
Category: Articles
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How many children born prematurely are in your class?
Teachers are not aware that there are as many as 4 children born prematurely in every classroom. These children are often ‘ wired differently’. Their profiles of learning can be quite different. They can attain and achieve , but the routes for getting there may be different from those traditionally used by teachers .Two new articles have highlighted this issue and the challenges for the teaching profession.On 31st January 2013 at the Institute of Education in London, there will be a national conference to focus on this issue.Please think of coming along. -
NOFAS – UK Article
NOFAS-UK is pleased to announce the release of the eighth issue of the FETAL ALCOHOL FORUM with the latest FASD research and articles from a range of experts in the field of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. It includes an educational article by Barry Carpenter, with specific reference to the work of Carolyn Blackburn ( currently a researcher at Birmingham City University,) some of which can be found on the NOFAS-UK website. Early Years practitioners would really find Carolyn’s study, “Building Bridges to Understanding” enormously valuable.To download Issue 8, click on the link:- http://www.nofas-uk.org/PDF/FetalAlcoholForumIssue8December2012.pdf -
FASD – Pedagogically Bereft
Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders area recently identified phenomena in British schools, as they are in other developed countries. This article describes a small scale piece of research , undertaken at the University of Oxford, which make a preliminary attempt to unpick some of the teaching strategies that may be effective with this educationally challenging group of children and young people.
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Deprived, Disadvantaged and Disabled
Teachers are increasingly reporting that ‘ the children are different”. They observe that the children they teach are not as they were in the past. This article discusses the changing pattern of special educational needs.
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Rules of Engagement
New generation children in our classrooms requires New generation pedagogy. This article describes the results of a national school based research project using the tenet of Engagement as the foundation for that new generation of teaching practices.
Barry Carpenter Education 