nasen spotlight
About the Book Series
The nasen spotlight series provides practical guidance and tried-and-tested resources for all schools and professionals involved in supporting Special Educational Needs. Written by leading experts and covering a wide range of important issues relating to SEN, the books include accessible explanations and examples of best practice, as well as tools and techniques that you can use to improve provision in school. Several new books are published each year to reflect your changing professional needs, and the whole series is brought to you by nasen, the leading organisation representing SEN professionals.
Teaching Foundation Mathematics: A Guide for Teachers of Older Students with Learning Difficulties
1st Edition
By Nadia Naggar-Smith
March 28, 2008
This fully photocopiable resource will provide essential materials for anyone teaching pre-entry or foundation Maths in secondary schools and further education. Teaching Foundation Mathematics is developed to provide age appropriate material for adult learners with moderate to severe learning ...
The Special School's Handbook: Key Issues for All
1st Edition
By Michael Farrell
August 17, 2007
Giving an up-to-date picture of the work of special schools, this practical and informative book provides an invaluable and timely companion for anyone teaching or planning to teach in special schools in the United Kingdom. Using case studies of good practice to provide clear suggestions on how ...
Social Inclusion in Schools: Improving Outcomes, Raising Standards
1st Edition
By Ben Whitney
June 14, 2007
This book provides the busy teacher with all the information they need to make social inclusion a reality within schools. By demonstrating how teachers and schools must work together to promote the wider welfare of all children, the book focuses particularly on the welfare of children on the ...
The New nasen A-Z of Reading Resources
1st Edition
By Baker Suzanne, Lorraine Petersen
June 30, 2006
The New nasen A-Z of Reading Resources is a graded list of all current reading schemes complete with guidance on the books’ suitability for readers at different levels of experience and competence. It will: enable teachers, SENCos and support services to choose books that are appropriate yet ...
Word Play: Language Activities for Young Children
1st Edition
By Sheila Wolfendale dec'd, Trevor Bryans
June 30, 2006
Strong basic language skills are the foundation on which successful future learning is built. Written by veteran SEN authors Sheila Wolfendale and Trevor Bryans, Word Play provides practitioners and parents with a range of fun activities, word games, story and drama exercises that can be used to ...
Supporting Mathematical Thinking
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Watson, Jenny Houssart, Caroline Roaf
January 24, 2006
To what extent do curriculum subjects, particularly highly abstract ones such as Mathematics, have their own unique special needs? This book celebrates the work done by subject specialists in mainstream classrooms to promote inclusive practice. It describes new and creative ways of developing ...
Children's Thoughts and Feelings
1st Edition
By Rob Long
August 17, 2005
Understanding how children think and feel is the key to buiding good relationships in the classroom. This book looks at: underlying causes of emotional conflicts the nature of maladaptive coping mechanisms why boys tend to "act out" and girls ten to "act in" interventions to promote the use of ...
Loss and Separation
1st Edition
By Rob Long
August 17, 2005
A sense of loss can have a very disturbing affect on children and can come about not only as a result of bereavement, but also after divorce/seperation, moving away from friends, moving between foster homes etc. This book looks at: understanding loss how different children react to loss listening ...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
1st Edition
By Rob Long
August 17, 2005
Schools are often faced with dealing with children who have mild forms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Through increased understanding, staff can support children with minimum stress. This book answers questions including: What is obsessive compulsive disorder? What are the causes? How can ...
Working with Groups
1st Edition
By Rob Long
August 17, 2005
Many children with emotional and behavioral difficulties behave well in a one-to-one situation with an adult. It is when they are in a group with their peers that their behavior deteriorates dramatically. The more teachers understand about group dynamics, the better equipped they will be to support...
Motivation
1st Edition
By Rob Long
July 27, 2005
If teachers can motivate pupils, their job is more than half done! Knowing how to interest and motivate pupils is a skill, which separates the "great" teacheres from the mediocre, This book will inform and inspire staff and give them confidence in dealing with pupils who are not naurally "teacher ...
Special Needs and Drug Education
1st Edition
By Richard Ives
June 29, 2005
Taking drugs is complex and there are concerns about the best ways of addressing drugs issues in schools - particularly for pupils with special educational needs. Many teachers are worried about discussing drugs with their pupils. They fear that they know too little and that some of their pupils ...