Support children and young people to achieve their learning potential
Use the internet to research legislation impacting children and young people’s access to education and learning opportunities in your home nation.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'The Right to Education,’ an article by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- ‘Participation of young people in education, employment or training Statutory guidance for local authorities’ from the Department for Education
- ‘Your child’s rights in education’ from Mencap
- ‘How to help your children discover their talents’ on the Shepherd’s Friendly website.
- ‘How to Help Teens Set Effective Goals’ from the Big Life Journal website
- ‘Effective communication with parents and carers: for professionals’ from the Australian Parenting website.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click the icon to the left to read an article summarising the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Education Scotland has produced ‘Engaging parents and families: A toolkit for practioners’. The document does refer to Scottish themes and legislation, but contains many ideas that you might want to consider and use in your role.
- Click on the link to read this article on ‘The Wounded Student' from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Consider how these barriers to learning opportunities have been created and may be resolved.
- ‘Activities for professionals who work with children in residential care to help support the development of skills in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing’ aims to support care staff working collaboratively with education staff to support children and young people with their learning in the care setting. Read the document and make notes on anything you can use in your role.
- Use the internet to research legislation impacting children and young people’s access to education and learning opportunities in your home nation.
- Think And Challenge
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