maintaining positive relationships
Level B of this module Introduces the core issues regarding promoting and maintaining
positive behaviour and relationships with children with SLD/PMLD/CLDD.
It also explains the purpose and benefits of promoting and maintaining positive behaviour
and relationships.
The materials in this level are intended to provide those working with children with SLD/PMLD/CLDD the tools to be able to:
- Understand emotional component of behaviour reflects the child's relationships;
- Acknowledge the ways in which a child's communication validates their 'world'; and
- Develop the skills to support the child to make simple choices that promote self-esteem and awareness.
Details of the professional standards that 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), children have special educational needs if they have a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for them.
Children have a learning difficulty if they have:
- A significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age, or
- 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.
