Health and Wellbeing
Mental Health and Wellbeing with SEND: Connection based approaches to teaching and learning that help everyone to learn
See the pupil everyone calls attention-seeking as a child asking for connection, and use small classroom habits that help them learn.
- 59 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Reframe attention-seeking behaviour as a pupil asking for connection
- Work out whether behaviour points to a physical or an emotional need
- Meet physical needs with movement breaks, different seating and sensory tools
- Build connection through quick check-ins, noticing small wins and real responsibility
- Change the way you and colleagues talk about pupils who find school hard
About this course
"He's just attention-seeking." "She's choosing not to engage." Said in passing in the staffroom, comments like these shape how every adult treats that pupil next time. For learners with SEND, who often find connection harder to build, the cost is higher still.
Connection is what lets a pupil feel safe enough to learn. You'll learn to read behaviour as a child telling you a need isn't being met, and to work out whether it's physical, like needing to move, or emotional, like anxiety. Then you'll have responses that take seconds: a movement break disguised as collecting the books, a quick check-in about the work instead of a telling-off, a word about a small win.
The ideas come from an experienced SENCO, who is also clear about when a need goes beyond the classroom and a child needs a counsellor or therapist.
- For early career teachers, support staff and 2 other roles. All phases.
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