Odd Socks and Docs

This episode looks at how to manage challenging, often aggressive behaviour, if you are smaller and less strong than a student in crisis.

The first episode of Series 2, welcome back after the summer holiday! In this episode I talk about how to prepare your staff and room to make a great learning environment, laying the foundations for a great school year.

In this episode I chat to a friend who came as a volunteer, then became a Dinner  Lady, then a Teaching Assistant and then went to university qualifying as a teacher. We chat about her first year as a teacher of the early years  in a special needs school. With some helps and tips for both new teachers and managers. This is the last episode in Series 1, I will be back at the end of August. Enjoy your summer break!

This episode follows on from the previous episode and we discuss successful inclusion of the students with the highest need for support.

A rare insight into this group of students from a former member of the school nursing team. It is an uplifting episode and her love and passion for her work really shine through!

Looking at ways to deal with students bringing in precious things to school that may cause problems.

When problems arise in class that you are struggling to resolve how best to approach a manager - some dos and don'ts!

How to make reading engaging, age-appropriate and fun for secondary age students with severe learning difficulties.

If your school has a hydro therapy pool make it a priority to book it as a weekly session. This episode I chat with a young teacher about managing a warm water session and the huge benefits of these very inclusive, joyful sessions.

Recording is an important part of the teacher's job. Here I talk about how to make it workable and how new digital recording programmes designed for mainstream don't really fit special needs and can massively increase the teacher's workload.