November SEND quiz

How many areas of SEND need are there?

• 4

• 12

• 2

• 3

Answer explanation

There are 4 areas of need.

Cognition and Learning

Communication and Interaction

SEMH

Physical & Sensory Needs

A student with a diagnosis has to be K coded?

• True

• False

Strategies for SEND students apply universally to all?

• Maybe

• Some will apply universally.

• True - all can be applied universally.

• False - the strategies for SEND are exclusive to SENd students.

How many waves on the graduated approach are there?

• 4

• 10

• 3

• 16

Answer explanation

What is missing from the EEF '5 a day'?

• Metacognition and Learning

• Cognition and Learning

• Autism and ADHD

• Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies

Answer explanation

These are resources that support HOW a learner learns.

It could be looking at skills or methods for revising, reading through a section of text and then summarising it. Teaching students to highlight certain phrases in a question, giving them a scaffold for answering it.

How many ways/strategies can you think of that would support students with memory processing issues?

Answer explanation

Does the way you instruct a student matter?

• Sometimes

• Always

• Never

Answer explanation

This can be interpreted in different ways but all of our students, for all people it matters. However even more so for our neurodivergent or students with trauma. As the way you ask something can activate their fight or flight - their nervous system. By using demand words, a student can instantly be triggered into a reaction that may seem like an 'over reaction'.

How many stages of communication (verbal) are there reputed to be?

• 3

• hundreds

• 20

• 14

Answer explanation

Its powerful to realised how much we do subconsciously when communicating verbally with someone.

Then add in, someone who has issues with most of these steps for eg;

-focus

-reading expressions or tone

-processing the meaning

-understanding how to respond

....and so on.

Where does it state 'teachers must adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils'?

• Governments Website

• Teachers Handbook

• Code of Practice

• Teacher's Standards

Name three external professionals that come into support our students.

Answer explanation

Social, Emotional, Mental Health and Learning (SEML) / Educational Psychologist / Complex Communication Team (CCT) / Speech And Language Therapist (SALT) / Nurse /