The interview for the podcast starts at 22:15 in Episode 19, here:
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Find Your Dream Job: The Employment Toolkit for Job Seekers with Autism
According to Autism Speaks, the majority of adults on the autism spectrum are either underemployed or unemployed. The good news is you can successfully land a job—and become successful with it—by having the right tools at your disposal.Here are a few resources to get you started today:Job Application Process
Job Search Process
Job Interview Process
Job Retention Process
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Lenny and Lily: wordless stories for primary school children – download for free.
Lenny and Lily in Lockdown and Lenny and Lily Return to School will help children make sense of their experiences during the coronavirus pandemic, communicate their feelings and prepare for more change as they go back to the classroom. As the stories are told in pictures alone, it is not necessary for children to be able to read words to enjoy them. This means they are appropriate for pupils in both mainstream and special education settings.
Supporting text at the end of each story gives teaching staff and parents guidance on how to use the stories with children.
Both stories are structured around the 5 Losses and 5 Levers of the Recovery Curriculum – www.recoverycurriculum.org
Both stories are available to download for free in time for the start of the new term from: www.booksbeyondwords.co.uk/lenny-and-lily-childrens-stories
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Zooming’ with Books Beyond Words!
Watch this incredible video clip of FE Tutor Leigh Blakeman, (Chadsgrove College, Bromsgrove) carrying out some home teaching using books beyond words with two students with PMLD from their 19-25 provision. As ever, we are reminded of the power of communication, in whatever form it comes.
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Self-esteem and self-efficacy: Values and beliefs
As children return to school , ‘Concepts of Self‘ will be of paramount importance.
This article by Laura Purser offers a brief explanation of the key concept of self esteem, but also why self efficacy is vital too.
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Wordless stories to help children returning to school: coming this month
School closures have been one of the biggest disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. For most children, lockdown has meant a loss of routine, structure, friendship, opportunity and freedom. Some may even have lost loved ones.
If you’re a teacher or parent you will already be thinking about how you’re going to support the children in your care to settle back into their daily school routine after such a long break and so much change.
We’re working with Prof Barry Carpenter CBE and teachers Alison Erskine and Jenny Hawkes to develop two new stories to support all primary school children – mainstream and SEN – in their return to school. Lenny and Lucy in Lockdown and Lenny and Lucy Return to School will help children make sense of their experiences, communicate their feelings and prepare for more change as they go back to the classroom – and they will be available completely free of charge.
Both stories will be available in time for the new school term. To receive an alert when they are published, sign-up to our mailing list.
“Following ‘lockdown’, with children now returning to their schools, teachers know that every child in their class will need time to talk. Each child’s experiences will need to be shared and acknowledged. These wordless stories are a unique way to help children recall and tell their own story of lockdown and to talk about their emotions and feelings as they return to school and begin their journey of recovery.”
– Jenny Hawkes; Assistant Head, Whitfield Aspen School“The strength of these wordless stories is the ease at which they can be used with all primary aged children. They can be used to stimulate a whole class discussion, as a small group activity or with an individual child. Lenny and Lucy’s experiences are a prompt for all children to tell their own stories, regardless of their communication abilities. Adults are able to listen, acknowledge and reassure the children, helping them articulate what they are feeling and make sense of what is happening as they return to school.”
– Ali Erskine; Head of School for KS1, Whitfield Aspen School“Children have had their world turned upside down by the pandemic; many are angry and confused, carrying lots of unprocessed information. These books will offer opportunities for children to recall those experiences, and, in so doing tell, ‘their’ story. The books make a unique contribution to the Recovery Curriculum of any school, and to its overall curriculum work in Social, Emotional and Mental Health.”
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Transforming Trauma by Laura Purser (Updated 21.8)
As Teachers begin to think about the return to school for the new term, they will be concerned about how their pupils will have processed, or not, the experience of lockdown and the pandemic generally.
Many will consider trauma informed practice in their repertoire of responses to child need.
In this Guest Blog, Laura Purser, who leads the Masters level SENCO training at the University of Buckingham, and is Head of Primary and Early Years teacher training there, discusses why this is invaluable as a lens for viewing the recent experiences of children.
https://educationblog.buckingham.ac.uk/2020/07/08/transforming-trauma-by-laura-purser/
Click here, or the cover image below to view.
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Fellowship Lecture: Chartered College of Teaching
On Tuesday 14th July, Professor Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching, awarded Professor Barry Carpenter with a Fellowship of the College for his distinguished service to Education.
Barry Carpenter Education 