SEN interview help!!

[Malaysiatrulyasia]

Hello all,

So I'm a primary class teacher and currently on maternity leave. Really keen to change career direction into SEN teaching but currently only have mainstream experience.

I've got an interview at a special school next week, hurrah! But have to teach a 20 minute literacy lesson to the class who are EYFS with a variety of unspecified needs... and I'm not really sure where to start! I'm thinking something very sensory, but do I do a story and then try an activity or just have the whole lesson as the story?? I don't really know what they're going to be able to do at this point so don't want to plan for writing letters for example if they're not able to. Any ideas anyone?

The school are fully aware that I don't have SEN experience btw and I did put on my application that I would need some training

You could pick one letter sound and plan a range of multi-sensory experiences around it. I would suggest 's' would be an easy one.

You could have as a target that they all say the sound and 'write' one- possibly in a sensory medium such as foam. I assume they are letting you loose on the TAs so hand-over-hand will be possible for those who need it.

Ooh thank you, good idea!