Specialist Teacher for Early Years. Our purpose is PLAY. It’s how we got here and its the only way forward.
United Kingdom
Joined October 2016
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Early Years funding will always remain tight but this…
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📹 You can use the link below to access the video recording of this lecture:
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🔔 Join us today for our Lunch Hour Lecture ‘Beyond Ofsted’ – the future of school inspection' with Professors @alicejbradbury and @JaneEPerryman.
Find out more and book your place here:
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🎄Advent Calendars and SEMH
An actual and symbolic seasonal self-regulation tip…on LinkedIn
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Early Years SEND - a guide to all Key Stages:
As a nation slightly addicted to shopping, in an educational climate which tempts us with product-based solutions, it is essential that we remember…
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Progress, closing the gap, achievement, success, mastery…that’s just an entree😉
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😶Secondary School Exclusion
Child receives 5 day exclusion the day before end of Term 6.
Guess what happens next?
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Before ‘Bucket Time’ gets written as a legal requirement into an EHCP…..oh.
Now that ‘Bucket Time’ is being written into EHCPs as a legal requirement…we REALLY need to talk about Attention Autism and Early Years.
And we’ll be doing this on Bluesky.
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Having a go at Blue Sky - shall we head over, Early Childhood Education friends? bsky.app/profile/dominicgunn…
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The relationship between child poverty & educational outcomes is well established, with children from lower-income households less likely to achieve than children from more affluent families.
How can we reduce inequality in the early years?
@CPAGUK @EndChildPoverty
Research from 'The Balancing Act' by @charliehacking and @Dominic_Wyse @HHCP_UCL will be shared as part of this training, explaining the place phonics should have, not the one it currently has with SSP!
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In terms of creditable research, the behaviourist approach has always been found wanting, rooted in a place of evidence-lite ideology. However, this important area is always explored, with international, peer-reviewed studies in the @SebdaOrg journal
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And it also perverts the learning experiences of those who CAN cope with it, while creating an illusion that it is valid.
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I have recorded a second series of free short videos with @naomicfisher for Autism Central about education. They include ways to work with school, but also some suggestions if school isn't working and you need to find another way.
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Rather than echoing this alarming news as ‘post-Covid figures’, I’ll rename it more accurately as ‘Post Inclusion figures’. This is with the best intention of preparing our education system for an urgent, honest, thorough redesign 🤞
📚 | NEW REPORT: School exclusions & suspensions are on the rise, and it is disproportionately affecting certain children. Our new report with @TheDifferenceEd looks at the scale & impact of the problem, including the huge cost to the state.
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An inspiring day with both Karen @dr_treisman and Elly @elly_chapple who described the ‘pulse of intention’ - children feel the truth (or otherwise) in our empathy, relationships and co-regulation.