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Sep 26, 2026
Cheryl BallanceGUEST
I think there's so much out there, isn't there, that you can get caught up in.
Cheryl BallanceGUEST
And you try and think back of, oh, gosh, what's the different things I've read? I'd say the thing that's, I don't know if this is properly answering the question, more recently, well, the EEF for anything, I think, is a good starting point.
Cheryl BallanceGUEST
If someone is unsure about what sort of, where to go, because there's so much, if you go on any social media, somebody's written a paper on something.
Cheryl BallanceGUEST
The thing that's really helped us as a school over the last few years is the EEF's five-a-day approach.
Cheryl BallanceGUEST
but not just thinking about it for SEM we think about it for all the children actually if we can use those five approaches then actually we are going to be including all of our children and I think yeah that's a good place to start and then controversially because I know there is a lot of controversial I think anything to do with trauma and ACEs I know some people are I feel that that becomes a little bit fluffy, but I do think having that knowledge.
Cheryl BallanceGUEST
The woman I've read a few things on is Dr. Nadine Burke Harris.
Carl SmithHOST
It's one that's more political, more at a national, if not international level.
Carl SmithHOST
So there's no single proven intervention, and the EEF, the Education Endowment Foundation, made that clear in their research.
Carl SmithHOST
More attendance staff is not necessarily the answer.
Carl SmithHOST
You do need enough attendance staff, most certainly.
Steve LomaxHOST
Let's keep reminding ourselves of that.
Steve LomaxHOST
But one of the things from the learning walk as a math subject leader is I find myself in sometimes is, is it math specific or is it generic? And it made me think of, you know, the EEF brought out some new inclusion guidance, you know, and they talked about a two-part model, haven't they, about the universal approach and then the additional support.
Steve LomaxHOST
And in that universal approach, we've got things like explicit instruction, quality of feedback, scaffolding, interesting, positive relationships.
Steve LomaxHOST
calm classroom environment.
Adam BoxerHOST
Can I honestly hand on heart say that if the other 10 people who taught him, and if the senior leaders really hounded him, and you know, sat with met with the parents and said, this child has to be in bed by this point, we're going to confiscate this device, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, we're going to turn off the Wi Fi, blah, blah, blah, like, would he really still have put his head on the desk? Would he then have ended up having on his autism diagnosis that he needs to put his face on the desk as a sensory need? Like, probably not.
Adam BoxerHOST
And that's why I always maintained, and actually this person emailed before the EEF's guidance came out, and the EEF's guidance is, I would highly recommend everyone read, they have this two-part model where they talk about the need to make specific adaptations and additional changes for specific students.
Adam BoxerHOST
So things like the time at pass, Um, uh, you know, it might be like particular ways of sitting or standing or, you know, uh, physical adaptations, like, um, having a blown up piece of paper or whatever it is, or behavior support plan, like the kind of thing that you might write or access to a TA, that kind of stuff.
Adam BoxerHOST
And then there's universal approaches, right? So explicit instruction.
Adam MaryczGUEST
But when we look at interventions, for me, it's about looking at, yes, there's some amazing, you know, ones that we've highlighted there that are funded and that hopefully people can access with the increased pupil premium as well.
Adam MaryczGUEST
Again, we won't get into the argument as to whether it's enough, but whether they can use to buy the programmes or sort of access the programmes if it's like the EEF programme.
Adam MaryczGUEST
Well, then you could use them in practice by building them into your day and by building them into your routine and by sort of understanding how that time works and by also understanding those children's individual needs.
Adam MaryczGUEST
We always come back to the children are individuals.
Elizabeth CordleGUEST
And these pilots are leading up to, I'm in communication with somebody who's going to hopefully do a much bigger research project on the programme.
Elizabeth CordleGUEST
and look at it independently, which obviously will be really important, as well as having conversations with the EEEF, Education Endowment Foundation, and those sort of people, so that we can actually see what impact we're having.
Elizabeth CordleGUEST
That's
Sarah RayHOST
fantastic.
MattHOST
And it is an informed discussion, right? These are words that we've been using at StepLab and talking about at StepLab and...
MattHOST
Have looked at the EEF research and guidance and so have a sense of what the context in which they're being used.
MattHOST
It's not it's not I'm not just my understanding is not just being pulled out of like, you know, me, my understanding of those words in isolation.
FemiHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
FemiHOST
And so the first thing you do when something's a focus is you make sure that you understand what it means, I would have thought.
FemiHOST
Yeah.
FemiHOST
Yeah, you mentioned the EEF, and maybe we'll start with inclusive teaching, because I know that one thing the EEF say about inclusive teaching is that, and I can almost directly quote this, because I'm talking about it in something I'm doing quite soon, they say that schools should consider the universal offer, and then on top of that, adaptive practices, which make the teaching inclusive.
FemiHOST
So maybe we can start with inclusive teaching, In your understanding of that word?
Alex KeenanHOST
I mean, the dilemma, I think a more focused example of the same dilemma is homework in primary school.
Alex KeenanHOST
So there's loads of evidence around homework in private school and the Education Endowment Foundation, who produce a load of educational research.
Alex KeenanHOST
So big cheer for the Education Endowment Foundation, which is a charity that just exists to do good science about what teaching and learning works.
Alex KeenanHOST
They did a paper, and what that paper illustrated in relation to homework in primary school children is that homework in primary school children does improve results, but it only really improves results for the children from well-off socioeconomic backgrounds who were already doing well.
Alex KeenanHOST
And so it improves results for children who are already doing well, you know, for the more successful part of the cohort, right? And so then you're in a bit of a dilemma because you say, well, do you have this policy because it does improve results? Little unfair on the children from better socioeconomic backgrounds not to invest in the improvement of their education.
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