Pupil with a laptop?

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I am a PGCE student and I just started my alternate placement. In one of the classes I will take over the student has SEN and uses a laptop in lessons. This is new to me I was just wondering how is best to support her? Should I email her notes and things or just allow her to type these herself? Just any advice on differentiation would be welcome please as my last school didn't have a lot of SEND. Thankyou.

Surely you need to ask the student. It completely depends on what she uses the laptop for; to link to the whiteboard, to receive all her work, maybe she accesses the work in a standard way but completes it using her laptop? Speak to the senco at the school and ask for the info or discreetly ask the student. No one on an anonymous forum is going to be able to help you. One student with SEN will be in no way similar to another. This is a good learning curve as communication is the key to making sure a student with a SEN is given the same opportunity as their peers to access your class. Good luck.

Don't worry too much - The class teacher should tell you (and you shouldn't really have to ask as You should be working alongside the usual class teacher). They should refer you to the SEND information- whatever it is called at your placement; it could be the inclusion register/send register/passport (so many differ terms and can the same term can be used differently at different schools). If you are doing observations can you have a look at the pupils work and check? Mostly, students complete the normal, appropriately differentiated work on a laptop. Not sure what notes you would send or what you would except them make. If you are still unsure speak to your mentor, then the school ITT cooordinator, then PGCE provider if they are not supporting you.

If you do have to email the student notes etc you do know enough not to use your personal email don't you. Only saying this because you seem to be a bit naive about how schools work considering this is your second placement .

Ask the class teacher - there's likely to be something already in place that you will just carry on with.

For what it's worth - my child uses her iPad to type a lot of her work at school and basically it's a case of "if it's a longer bit of work she just gets on with it" and then comes home and prints it out and takes it back into school (we would have been pushing the boundaries of a very flakey school IT system to try anything more complex than that) and it's purely because her motor skills are so far behind her ability to actually generate text, spell, use grammar etc that she can't physically record what she's capable of. We set up that system with the software she uses as it's minimal hassle for the teacher - no "Miiiisssss I've just pressed a button and my work's gone all funny" tech issues to sort out!

@viques Obviously I would have asked the class teacher but she wasn't in and I'm taking over the class before she's back. I also don't have access to the SEND register yet which I've already enquired about so I am not naive at all.

Then ask the SENCO.

i am not naive at all

Yet on your other thread you think secondary school teachers should get paid more because they have better qualifications than primary school teachers.

Have you ever thought of another career?

@Viques You have completely misinterpreted (deliberately I assume) that I said secondary school teachers have better degrees. I actually was talking about the quantity of degrees rather than quality and was just asking if a teacher has a whole degree in a subject then an educational qualification wouldn't that put them in a better position? You are trying to exaggerate and misconstrue what I've said.

thats not actually what you said in your thread title and your opening posts. It was only when people pointed out your misconceptions that you backtracked. And btw, a PGCE is not an additional degree, it is a vocational certificate.

I actually didn't say additional degree @viques I said qualification. I have heard about your reputation on other forums so I won't feed the troll.

i actually was talking about the quantity of degrees not the quality

I think you need to stop digging the hole.

Ps sorry to disappoint, not on any other forums.