SEN Statementing – Education Authority – Oral Briefing
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Fully stressed and have left teaching, after 25 years, due to chronic health, having rarely missed a day…
Had a class of 30 with about 1/4 with statements including severe emotional /behavioural needs and one with high functioning autism but practically no social/ integration skills, plus a very bright bunch who needed ‘stretching’. Ended up I was the one who was stretched! SEN support assistant hours had been cut. The afternoons particularly were totally “challenging” (understatement)! IEPs/ statementing of limited effectiveness when there are insufficient resources to meet and deliver within the classroom…
Fully stressed and have left teaching, after 25 years, due to chronic health, having rarely missed a day…
Had a class of 30 with about 1/4 with statements including severe emotional /behavioural needs and one with high functioning autism but practically no social/ integration skills, plus a very bright bunch who needed ‘stretching’. Ended up I was the one who was stretched! SEN support assistant hours had been cut. The afternoons particularly were totally “challenging” (understatement)! IEPs/ statementing of limited effectiveness when there are insufficient resources to meet and deliver within the classroom…