Inclusion Manager

Knowledge and understanding:

• The characteristics of effective teaching and learning styles, including the main strategies for improving and sustaining high standards of pupil achievement and promoting their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and their good behaviour, and how those strategies can be used to support pupils with SEN, EAL, PP and LAC;

• How information and communication technology can be used to help pupils gain access to the curriculum, as an aid to teaching and learning and as a means of communication between those teaching pupils with SEN, EAL, PP and LAC;

• Relevant research, national inspection evidence and legislation, including the SEN Code of Practice and equal opportunities legislation and how these apply to pupils with statements as well as those without;

• The requirements to communicate information effectively to LAs, external agencies, parents and other schools or colleges on transfer;

• How to contribute to the professional development of other staff in relation to pupils with SEN, EAL, PP and LAC; including how to recognise and deal with stereotyping in relation to disability or race;

• The purpose of individual education plans, including leading their formulation and planning their implementation and review.