SENCO

Welcome to your SENCO page

This is a space designed for you as a SENCO to access and review any and all of the information covered in our SENCO PD days.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or further information you may wish to have included here.

Wednesday August 28, 2019

Thank you for your attendance to our second SENCO workshop of 2019. Below you will find information presented in our workshop for you to review and reflect upon.

Whats On Top for you in your schools

Jo Arnold - Learning Support Network
Online Community of Practice

www.lsn.nz
Contact details:
Jo Arnold
j.arnold@massey.ac.nz

Thank you to Jo for going through and sharing information with us around the Learning Support Network. It was fantastic to learn about the variety of ways SENCO's can be supported across the nation and the ability to network, answer questions, and access valuable resources. Below is an introduction to the Learning Support Network

Maree Rowland - What is Autism
Below is a copy of Maree's presentation and themes that ran through her whole presentation.

State the obvious,
if he has not seen it he has not heard it,
pictures are worth a thousand words
use commands avoid questions,
always use visuals,
build many breaks into their day,
make change a good thing by using change up's,
timers are key make sure to use visual timers so they can see time fly by.
Calendars in the home are just as important as in school.
Social stories Carol Gray, They are the eyes and ears for the student. "I'm going to be your eyes" it is about describing an event, stay away from "I". Call your story a question, so your description is about answering the question. "tell me one thing about.....", At the end you can throw in 1 "I will try...." for relievers ..what are 5 things you can tell the babysitter.

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Workshop May 30th, 2019

Thank you for attending our first SENCO workshop of 2019. In response to demand arising from our first successful SENCO workshop in 2018, we were pleased to be able to offer further opportunity to support SENCO's in their work, as we believe they play a huge part in identifying and supporting the students you with. We recognise the demands of the SENCO role, and aim to provide opportunity to learn alongside, share and network with other Taranaki SENCO's. Based on evaluations from our first professional development day, the workshop topics were:
Autism Spectrum Disorder- Using the Ziggurat model in assessment and IEP processes.
Assistive technology- learn about technologies available and the process of applying