What is the SDQ? - SENsible SENCO Q&A6
What is the SDQ? - The SENsible SENCO by SENDCO Solutions.
Series of videos designed to give a helping hand to SENDCOs, teachers, governors and managers with promoting information on special educational needs in schools.
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The SENsible SENCO (Abigail Hawkins) talks about how to use the SDQ to find out the strengths and difficulties of the children you support in education. Sometimes we are asked how can we measure social and emotion, and mental health needs in schools, well you can use a strength and difficulties questionnaire. Many people think it is just CAMMs that can use this, but this isn't true, you can easily download a copy and while we, as SENCOs are not able to diagnose any behaviours through this, it can give us a really good idea of what could or should be looking out for. The SDQ is really simple to use, and can evidence towards your EHCA. When using a strength and difficulties questionnaire all you need to do is tick through the boxes and think of any reason why the statements on the strengths and difficulties questions could be true. There are multiple languages and different groups of individuals ie parent, teacher, SENCO, can fill the strengths and difficulty questionnaires in. All this leads to a score which gives an idea on whether a 4-17 year old could have any difficulties. These scores are broken down into Emotional, Conduct, Hyper activity, Peer problems, Prosocial and impact.
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About the SENsible SENCO..
Who am I? Abigail Hawkins was a classroom teacher and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator for more than 20 years. During her time in education she has been a teacher in a wide variety of settings within special educational needs and across age ranges 2 to adult. Whilst originally training as a science teacher, she has spent the majority of her teaching career supporting children with specific learning needs including poor literacy skills and special educational needs. Abigail Hawkins has also had many other hats across the years include Co-ordinator for Pupil Premium (PP), English as an additional Language (EAL), Looked after Children (LAC), Family Learning, Assessment, (a whole variety of subjects including Science, Literacy, DT, IT, History, Music and Maths), Designated Safeguarding Lead, Chief First-Aider and NQT Mentor. The only mainstream subject to have not appeared on her timetable (within primary, secondary or FE) at some point has been...nope, can't think of one, although SLT once regretted asking her to teach art to 9-year-olds!
Now a founder of the chartered college of teacher, Abigail Hawkins (FCCT) is one of only 750 teachers with this status in the country, but what is the Chartered College of Teaching? I hear you say...
“The Chartered College of Teaching is the professional body for teachers. We are working to celebrate, support and connect teachers to take pride in their profession and provide the best possible education for children and young people. We are dedicated to bridging the gap between practice and research and equipping teachers from the second they enter the classroom with the knowledge and confidence to make the best decisions for their pupils.”
This just proves how dedicated Abigail is to improving SEND education standards across the country. Who else would spend every Wednesday and Thursday night recording and editing a new educational video?
SENDCO Solutions is a company designed around the need of the SENCO, ensuring new SENDCOs are fully supported through our social media and YouTube channels. At the moment we are looking to see what type of video engages best with our audience, PowerPoint presentation, video blogging or something else. The educational market has proven to be a difficult area to gain ground on for YouTube viewers.
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