Education Courses delivered by Sue Lewis
Friday 23rd January 2012
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Securing thinking skills and independent learning behaviour at EYFS and KS1: One of the challenges for those working with deaf children is ensuring that they are developing not only language and listening skills but learning behaviours that set them up well for the classroom and home environments. This course focuses on identifying what those behaviours might be and how teachers and teaching assistants can work with families and early years providers/schools so that children learn optimally and their language, listening and thinking skills move on. |
Friday 10th February 2012
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Inspection frameworks come and go but their intended purpose remains the same – to raise attainment and improve outcomes for children and families wherever they go to school or in whatever setting they are placed. This course explores how services, schools and resource bases can exemplify their own contribution to such improved achievement and attainment and use the new framework to drive improvement forward.
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Monday 19th March 2012
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Demonstrating the child’s learning journey and the difference that services and provision makes to that learning is an integral part of the new EYFS arrangements and inspection framework. This course, will examine the sorts of evidence that can be collected to demonstrate the child’s learning journey both in areas of learning and in relation to the child’s specialist needs. This includes how this might be benchmarked and how improvement targets might be set. |
Thursday 29th & Friday 30th March 2012
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Day 1 (Thursday 29th March) can be taken as a day course for £85.00. This course provides training for participants in the use of ACE, leading to skills in tracking and securing higher order language skills in children who are deaf. The aims are to: 1. Place this subtest within its broader context and consider its importance as an indicator of children’s access and need. 2. Offer an opportunity to have more practice in assessing children’s responses to this section of the Narrative/Discourse section of the ACE test. 3. Foster competency in its administration and the interpretation of test results. 4. Consider different responses to pupils’ needs and how narrative skills can be fostered. |
Thursday 19th & Friday 20th April 2012
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Completion of this course allows participants to use these scales and we will explore issues specific to using them with deaf children. The new Reynell Developmental Language Scales is a closed test, but Teachers of the Deaf and Speech & Language Therapists may use it, providing they attend this, or a similar course. Sue Lewis is the only approved NFER trainer and specialises in its use with deaf children. |
Monday 21st May 2012
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This course provides participants with a sound foundation of understanding of the principles and practices that secure effective outcomes for babies and children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Course content will include: working in partnership with families, practical directed support, understanding early development within the context of the EYFS framework and Monitoring Protocol for Deaf Babies and Children. |
Monday 18th June 2012
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This course is focused on strategies for promoting and monitoring the development of higher order and independent thinking and learning skills in deaf children at KS2, 3 and 4. It uses recent research, but also the national strategies, to explore the ways in which those supporting deaf children can incorporate such strategies into their lessons and interactions with the children to secure their learning optimally, including the encouragement of the voice of the child and of children taking responsibility for their own learning. "Thank you for an informative day. Some really exciting information to go back and share." |