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Democratic Schools | Education Revolution - Alternative Education Resource Organization - 0 views

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  • Denmark Bernadotteskolen. Den Internationale Skole i Danmark, Copenhagen Den Demokratiske Skole, Viby Sj Det Frie Gymnasium, Kobenhavn Naestved Fri Skole, Naestved, Rislev Yggdrasil Skolen / Det Sydfynske, Stenstrup
  • France Ecole de la Neuville, Chalmaison La Prairie, Toulouse La Ferme des Enfants, Lablachere Lycee Autogere De Paris, Paris Lycee Experimental, Saint Nazaire
  • United Kingdom Center For Self-Managed Learning, Brighton Kilquhanity Childrens Village, Scotland Park School, Totnes, Devon Room 13, Scotland Sands School, Ashburton, Devon Self-Managed Learning College, Brighton Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk
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  • Sweden SEBOR Friskola, Borlange
  • There is no monolithic definition of democratic education or democratic schools
  • education in which young people have the freedom to organize their daily activities, and in which there is equality and democratic decision-making among young people and adults
  • These schools and programs take many forms and include public and private alternatives and homeschool resource centers
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BBC News - Coalition row over school places funding - 0 views

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  • 11 May 2014
  • Lib Dem sources say 30,000 local authority places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools. They said Mr Gove was "ideologically obsessed" about backing free schools.
  • Tory education sources called the Lib Dems "pathetic", saying more school places were being created overall.
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  • David Cameron said free schools were "an excellent innovation" and he would "get on with delivering what matters, which is good schools for our children".
  • Liberal Democrat's deputy leader, Malcolm Bruce, said the budget for free schools was "completely out of control" and accused the education secretary of being "monetarily obsessed".
  • According to sources in Mr Clegg's office, last December Mr Gove overruled the Lib Dem schools minister David Laws to take £400m from the Basic Need Budget for 2015-17. They claim the money was diverted to help cover a projected £800m overspend between 2013 and 2016 in the budget of free schools - a project close to Mr Gove's heart.
  • Free schools can be set up by parents, teachers, charities, businesses, universities, trusts, religious or voluntary groups, but are funded directly by central government. There are currently 174 free schools in England with another 116 approved to open from this September.
  • senior Department for Education officials had raised concerns school places may have to be cut if the Lib Dems' free school meals policy for infant children was implemented.
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Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) - 0 views

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  • Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a term used to describe a number of symptoms and behaviours which affect the way in which a group of people understand and react to the world around them. It's an umbrella term which includes autism, Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental disorders. All of these autistic spectrum disorders have an onset before the age of three
  • Recent research by the Learning Disabilities Observatory indicates that around 20-30% of people with learning disabilities have an ASD.
  • Being diagnosed with Asperger syndrome does not constitute having a learning disability.
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  • All children and adults with an ASD will have the following core symptoms in what is known as the ‘triad’ of impairments:
  • 1. Non-verbal and verbal communication People with an ASD have difficulty in understanding the communication and language of others, and in communicating themselves. Many children are delayed in learning to speak and a small minority do not develop much functional speech. This does not mean they cannot communicate, as they use other methods to communicate their needs. People with an ASD tend to have a literal understanding of language, so the use of metaphors such as ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’ should be avoided.
  • 2. Social understanding and social behaviour People with an ASD have difficulty understanding the social behaviour of others and can behave in socially inappropriate ways. People with an ASD have difficulty empathising with others, and as a result are unable to read social contexts. Children with an ASD often find it hard to play and communicate with other children, because of their difficulties with empathy.
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      60-70% of ppl with ASD will have LD 20-30% of ppl with LD also have ASD
  • 3. Imagining and thinking/behaving flexibly Children with an ASD find it difficult to engage in imaginative play, so they tend to spend more time in solitary play. Children with an ASD can have an excellent memory concerning toys or activities they are passionate about. People with an ASD tend to have particular interests in specific topics or activities, which they may pursue obsessively. People with an ASD often find change difficult to cope with, and have a preference for routine. They may also struggle to transfer skills to other activities.
  • Approximately 1% of the population has an autistic spectrum condition. The prevalence rate of autistic spectrum conditions is higher in men than it is in women (1.8% vs. 0.2%). 60-70% of people who have an autistic spectrum condition will also have a learning disability.
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Free Schools | National Union of Teachers - NUT - 0 views

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  • The NUT opposes free schools. We believe it is wrong that state funding should be given to small groups of individuals to run schools that are unaccountable to their local communities. We believe that free schools undermine:teachers' professional status and their pay and conditions;local authorities’ ability to plan and manage school places;common admissions’ arrangements and fuel social segregation;fair funding for schools – free schools are getting a disproportionate share of capital and revenue funding for schools at a time when education budgets are being cut; anddemocratic local accountability of schools to their communities
  • National Audit Office report on free schools In December 2013 the National Audit Office published a damning report into the free school programme. You can read the NUT’s summary of the findings here.
  • FAQs on Free Schools This is a collection of frequently asked questions on free schools.
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  • Research Shows Primary School Place Shortages Worsen NUT research shows primary school place shortages worsen while resources being wasted on free schools are adding to surplus secondary places – read the full press release
  • The impact of Free Schools on Neighbouring Schools NUT research shows that many free schools will have a negative impact on existing local schools. Read more here.
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An exploration of factors influencing workplace learning among novice teachers in Malay... - 0 views

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    "The article describes an exploratory study to develop and conduct preliminary testing of the PFIL (perceptions toward factors influencing workplace learning among novice teachers) inventory. The 20-item inventory was tested among 90 recent graduates of one teacher training institute in Sarawak, Malaysia"
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Hofman, Gray, Daly: Institutional Context of Education Systems in Europe: A Cross-Count... - 0 views

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    "Institutional Context of Education Systems in Europe: A Cross-Country ...  edited by R. H. Hofman, W. H. A. Hofman, J. M. Gray, P. Daly"
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Proposed changes to autism and Asperger syndrome diagnostic criteria - | autism | Asper... - 0 views

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  • NAS welcomes the overall proposed approach to streamline diagnostic criteria and make them simpler, to develop dimensional measures of severity and recognise the range of full health problems someone is experiencing, as well as any other factors that impact on their diagnosis.
  • the proposed severity levels are not fit for purpose and potentially very unhelpful as they are currently drafted
  • need to be much more detail to make the severity levels appropriate and widely applicable.
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  • levels are not consistent with the diagnostic criteria.
  • Key areas, including sensory aspects, are not mentioned within the severity levels.
  • The minimum criteria for level 1 severity “Needs support” are considerably higher than the minimum criteria for a diagnosis
  • DSM is an American publication. Most diagnoses in the UK are based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), published by the World Health organisation, or other criteria, such as those developed by Professor Christopher Gillberg. 
  • Creating a direct link between a clinical decision over diagnosis and a recommendation for support could affect clinical impartiality. In the UK we are aware of situations where clinical professionals have felt under pressure from their employers to under-assess needs in order to ration limited resources.
  • Dr Lorna Wing and Dr Judith Gould have submitted a paper to the American Psychiatric Association, jointly written with Professor Christopher Gillberg. This article has been published in the journal Research in Developmental Disabilities. It calls for a stronger focus on social imagination, diagnosis in infancy and adulthood, and on the possible under-diagnosis of girls and women with autism
  • They recommend that sub-group names for particular autism spectrum disorders are kept in the new diagnostic criteria, including a description of Asperger syndrome, to make it very clear that this continues to be a part of the autism spectrum. 
  • APA propose creating a new diagnosis of social communication disorder. This would be given where someone exhibits the social communication and interaction aspects of an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, but does not show restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests or activities. 
  • linking of a clinical diagnosis to recommendations of support may create expectations for people on the autism spectrum that services will be provided when this will not always be the case (at least in the UK), due to high eligibility thresholds or because decisions about such support may be taken by professionals who have no relation to the diagnostic process. 
  • The current ICD (ICD-10) is virtually the same as DSM. The next version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is due to be published in 2015. They will consider the changes made to DSM-5, but their descriptions are often slightly different. For example, the diagnostic names in ICD-10 are different to those in DSM-4. 
  • Diagnoses should always be based on a clinical decision about whether someone has an impairment which has a disabling effect on their daily life. Diagnoses will be given where symptoms cause an impairment to everyday functioning.
  • Overall, we believe that the changes to the diagnostic criteria are helpful. They are clearer and simpler than the previous DSM-4 criteria. 
  • The diagnostic manuals are updated every so often to reflect the latest research. The last change to the DSM was in 2000, and before that in 1994.
  • How long have autism and Asperger syndrome been in the DSM? Autism was first included as a separate category in DSM-3 in 1980 when it was called 'infantile autism'. This was later changed to 'autistic disorder' in 1987. 'Asperger’s disorder' (syndrome) was added into the next version, DSM-4, in 1994.
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Free Schools: A Cause for Concern - press release | National Union of Teachers - NUT - 0 views

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  • 9 April 2012
  • “The Union’s research shows that many of the Free Schools already opened, and those due to open later this year, will have a negative impact on existing local schools. “In many cases the Government is allowing Free Schools to open regardless of the concerns raised by local authorities, heads, governors and parents. Local Authorities are best placed to assess whether the opening of a Free School, or indeed any school, is necessary. In many cases Free Schools are opening in areas where there are already surplus school places and in others, the new free school will create surplus places leading to unnecessary competition and schools with many places unfilled.
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  • “Michael Gove has to remember that this is tax payers’ money and the education of tax payers’ children that he is playing fast and loose with. The Government must be held to account for a policy that is neither needed, wanted, which lacks transparency and which is not even greatly understood”.
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Wan Abdullah, W. 2013. Supported employment : persons with learning difficulties in Mal... - 0 views

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    Wan Abdullah, W. 2013. Supported employment : persons with learning difficulties in Malaysia. Retrieved from: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2686763~S1 [Accessed November 24, 2014].
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Thesaurus Term - Trust schools - The Department for Education - 0 views

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  • Trust schools are state-funded foundation schools which receive extra support (usually non-monetary) from a charitable trust made up of partners working together for the benefit of the school
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Evaluation practical guide - 0 views

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  • "Evaluation is the collection of, analysis and interpretation of information about any aspect of a programme of education or training as part of a recognised process of judging its effectiveness, its efficiency and any other outcomes it may have." Mary Thorpe in "Handbook of Education Technology" (Ellington, Percival and Race, 1988)
  • Evaluation is concerned at the macro or holistic level of the learning event, taking into account the context of learning and all the factors that go with it,
  • assessment can be seen as the measurement of student learning and is one of the elements that go into an evaluation, the micro-level
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  • Tessmer and Harris (1992) make great use of checklists as templates for conducting evaluations. Having a checklist of the stages within an evaluation can help in the shaping and structuring of the overall evaluation design, besides their use in the evaluation itself.
  • It is useful to document all aspects of the evaluation procedure and check this off once completed
  • Evaluation is a planned systematic and open endeavour.
  • Evaluation: A practical guide to methods Philip Crompton
  • Ellington, H, Percival, F, and Race, P (1993) "Handbook of Educational Technology", Kogan Page, London
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Academy and free school presumption - Publications - GOV.UK - 0 views

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    "Increasing the number of academies and free schools to create a better and more diverse school system"
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