evaluation
Level D of this module builds on what has been learned at levels B and C.
Level B introduces assessment, monitoring and evaluation approaches, whilst level
C expands on this by looking to a range of useful tools designed to assess a child's
communication strengths and needs.
Level D focuses on how effective use of assessment data can ensure all teaching
reinforces and extends pupils' knowledge and understanding.
This level also looks at the role of school leaders in ensuring appropriate safeguarding
including using a CAF.
The materials in this level are intended to provide the user with the tools to deliver the following learning outcomes.
- Use assessment information to create a profile of a pupil’s comprehension and expression and to monitor progress and facilitate achievement;
- Use assessments of communicative ability to determine appropriate use of high tech and/or low tech communication aids; and
- Understand and justify the critical role of leaders in improving teaching and learning.
Details of the professional standards which apply to all teachers in England can be obtained from the Department for Education website. These standards apply to all teachers regardless of their career stage and all aspects of the standards are relevant to teachers working with children with special educational needs.
As defined by the Department for Education Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2001), 'Special Educational Needs' refers to children who have a learning difficulty. This means that they either:
- Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age; or
- Have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in schools within the area of the local education authority.
