Dr Mollie Higgins, Educational Psychologist, shares the key themes and outcomes of her doctoral research around Autistic Young People experiencing Emotional Based School Avoidance (EBSA). Mollie has been working alongside Dr Jerricah Holder to create a new chapter for the EBSA...
Introduction
Precision Teaching is an engaging, individualised pedagogical technique that offers a practical approach to boosting literacy, numeracy and a range of other discrete learning. It’s strengths and benefits are well reflected by its popularity and the fact that it has been a...
Jenny Dutton, Educational Psychologist
As a semi-professional procrastinator I thought I’d share with you a new year top tip for getting through report writing (this blog was written whilst procrastinating on an EHC report).
As an educational psychologist, I have worked with many...
School teacher’s role feels ever expanding; but all with the central aim to not only impart knowledge, but to support the emotional and psychological development of young people. An increasing issue within schools, both for individual teachers and SLT is the increasing anxiety young people...
by Rachel Cartin, Research Officer at Bangor University
When watching Joanna’s first video of her Literacy: A Path for All CPD course, it struck me that we’re often so focused on reading as the process of decoding and understanding text, that we forget that there are so many more...
The Starting Line: Reading Woes in a Year 1 Classroom
As a Year 1 teacher in a three form entry Manchester primary school, I grappled with a common yet disheartening issue: the wide range of reading abilities among the children in my class. While some were doing well and able to read CCVC words...
