Contact Details

Name: Dr Jackie Dearden
Email: j.dearden2@ntlworld.com
Phone/Fax: 0115 9820976
Mobile: 07815 097 533

Training and Development Opportunities

I provide a range of training and development opportunities for people working in children's services including early years education, social care, and health.

Some Examples of Previous Training Work

Relevant Links and Publications

Equality and inclusion:

Making Inclusion Happen in North East Lincolnshire - Sharing Good Practice (PDF Document 2.2MB PDF document)

Snapshots of Possibility - Shining examples of inclusive education (Webpage Link allfie.org.uk)

Equality Training - Hard hitting ideas , delivered with sweetness (Webpage Link equalitytraining.co.uk)

Alliance for Inclusive Education (Alfie) (Webpage Link allfie.org.uk)

Teaching and learning:

Personalised Learning - Tailoring learning solutions for every pupil - NCSL (PDF Document 1.01MB PDF document)

Leading Personalised Learning in Schools - NCSL (PDF Document 472KB PDF document)

Personalised Learning A Commentary byThe Teaching And Learning Research Programme (PDF Document 1.53MB PDF document)

Self Organised Learning: A gateway to personalising learning - Gerv Leyden and Jackie Dearden (PDF Document 18KB PDF document)

Self Organised Learning web site- The SOLution for Effective Learning (Webpage Link selforganisedlearning.com)

Personalisation article on Innovation Unit web site (Webpage Link innovation-unit.co.uk)

Personalised Learning page on Teachernet web site (Webpage Link teachernet.gov.uk)

Transforming Education for Every Child: A Practical Handbook - John West-Burnham (Webpage Link amazon.co.uk)

Children and young people in public care:

Maximising Life Chances for Children and Young People in Public Care: A multi-agency approach to planning and delivering joint training (PDF Document 32KB PDF document)

Resilience: a study of risk and protective factors from the perspective of young people with experience of local authority care (Webpage Link ingentaconnect.com)

The Circle of Courage Philosophy - Reclaiming Youth Network (Webpage Link reclaiming.com)

Peer tutoring and mentoring:

Dearden, J. (1998) Cross-age Peer Mentoring in Action: the process and outcomes. Educational Psychology in Practice Vol13, No. 4 (Webpage Link ingentaconnect.com - very slow)

Circle Of Friends:

Inclusion.com - Workshops, books, media, resources, ... (Webpage Link inclusion.com)

Inclusive Solutions - Experienced educational psychologists specialising in mainstream inclusion (Webpage Link inclusive-solutions.com)

Facilitated Communication Training:

CandLE - Communication and Learning Enterprises (Webpage Link contactcandle.co.uk)

Syracuse University Facilitated Communication Institute (Webpage Link soeweb.syr.edu)

DEAL Communication Centre Inc. in Australia (Webpage Link deal.org.au)

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