| Supporting Staff working with Pupils with SEBD This useful handbook is organised into six clear sections, each by a different author. It came out of a research project and aims to pass on to practitioners the benefits of that research. Beginning with an overview of the history and legislation, it includes sections on therapeutic approaches to education (including working with individuals and with the curriculum), nature and nurture, and emotional literacy. The final section is especially useful. It includes suggestions on how to put the more theoretical aspects of the study into practice. It details strategies to help the classroom teacher focus on influence rather than control. Ways of doing this, it suggests, include changing the way we use language when dealing with students. This book bears reading by any practitioner working with SEBD children, but also contains theories and practical advice helpful to mainstream teachers in respect of classroom management. The Teacher (March, 2005)
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'... topics selected highlight bottom-up strategies such as therapeutic approaches necessary to provide a positive school ethos and culture. All the contributors deal with different aspects of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in order to further support pupils who indicate these problems. A useful book for all those addressing the needs of pupils with SEBD - readable and confirming. Would be of value to all schools, but particularly those who want to reflect upon the choices they have in the classroom in order to devise ways forward.' Reviewed in SNIP (July, 2004) |