Program Overview

Championing Children with Care Experience - The Designated Teacher Award

Overview

This module has been developed in collaboration with the Suffolk Virtual School (VS) and Suffolk's Psychology and Therapeutic Services (P&TS) and would be appropriate for Designated Teachers and others working more broadly with children in care/looked after children. The module provides an opportunity to develop a critical, theoretical understanding of person-centred educational provisions for children in care (CiC) and previously looked after children (pLAC). Rethinking education practices within classrooms, it promotes powerful change by breaking with individualistic approaches in education and addresses issues of learning as participation, diversity and inclusion, inter-professional working, and the effects these have on educational achievement. Additionally, this module is underpinned by the UNCRC’s premise that children have a right to participation in matters that concern them and considers how educational provisions can be centred around children’s preferences.

Module Aims

• Identify some of the basic concepts and theories to shape teaching and learning in classrooms to the unique needs of students.
• Reflect on your own practice and challenge your current understandings.

Module Units

• Unit 1: Children with care experience
  • Legal and moral context, the role of the Designated Teacher as a key champion in advocating for children with care experience
• Unit 2: Attachment awareness
  • Current thinking around attachment: theory, frameworks, what attachment difficulties look like and how you can offer support
• Unit 3: Trauma-informed practice
  • Being trauma-informed, current theories and models, emotional reactivity and sleep, and various relational approaches
• Unit 4: Person-centred planning
  • Informed by disability rights, seeking to craft a vision for a person’s life as part of their local community

Further Information

• This module is part of the MA Education degree.
• For more information on the module, please contact CPD enquire.

Course Details

• Duration: Seven-week block
• Location: Online
• Cost: £763

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