Real Group Partners with Dingley’s Promise to Deliver DfE Early Years SEND Training Courses
Real Group is honoured to be the infrastructure and delivery partner for the new national early years SEND CPD courses, delivered by early years charity, Dingley’s Promise. This is part of the DfE’s wider £200 million SEND CPD teacher training programme, which the Government are planning to extend to £800 million.
The courses are now available via our proprietary virtual learning environment, Campus Online, and are free to access for anyone who works in early years education in England, including SENCOs, educators and childminders.
Dingley’s Promise has developed the course with additional content from partners Contact, Speech and Language UK, Coram PACEY, nasen and the National Children’s Bureau. Aside from designing the interactive digital experience, experts from Real Group also contributed case studies and audio interviews captured from early years settings.
The SEND CPD will allow staff to use age-appropriate inclusive practices from day one.
It is broken into three areas:
- Foundations of Inclusive Practice
- Embedding Inclusive Practice
- Parent Partnerships
Included within these topics are crucial themes for all educators, such as using the graduated approach, early identification and action, adaptive teaching and creating an ‘inclusive by design’ curriculum, as well as modifying the learning environment and supporting transitions.
We are delighted that our platform and instructional design expertise are supporting this important training, which features over 20 hours of self-paced content, including reflective activities, practical strategies and case studies to develop practitioners’ inclusive approach.