individual pupils

To ensure that all children make progress, teachers need to plan in a different way to meet the wide range of needs of
the children in a class.
This section looks at how a class teacher plans to motivate the individual pupils within her class, taking account of their
learning styles, ability and learning needs.

Tierney and Heidi are two pupils with complex but diverse needs. Read their pen portraits below.
Look at the powerpoint to understand a little bit more about Autism and visit the Scope website to familiarise yourself
with some of the key difficulties faced by children and young people with
cerebral palsy.
Watch the video featuring Tierney and Heidi participating in an English lesson.
How has the teacher planned to overcome Tierney and Heidi's fine motor difficulties within the lesson?
Think of a child in your class with SLD and complex physical needs or speech and language difficulties. Plan a lesson for
the class and highlight the measures you will put in place to include that child fully in the lesson.
Some suggestions
Tierney uses a PC or a laptop to enable her to complete her written work. Heidi uses a Toughbook, which is similar to a laptop. It has all the key vocabulary that she needs. She only has to push one button to get the key word that she needs. All the words for this lesson were in her 'Food' vocabulary folder. Tierney and Heidi's work is printed and put into their exercise books.
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