Contact Details
Name: Dr Jackie DeardenEmail: 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.
- Equality and inclusion
- - In early years settings
- - In mainstream schools
- Teaching and learning
- - Graphic facilitation
- - Mentoring
- - Self organised learning
- - Personalised learning
- Children and young people in public care
- - Risk and resilience
- - Circle of courage
- - Impact of care on education
- Peer support
- - Peer tutoring and mentoring
- - Circle of friends
- Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)
- - Signs and symbols
- - Facilitated communication
Some Examples of Previous Training Work
- Developing and implementing multi-agency training programme (education, mental health, physical health, social care) on the meeting the holistic needs of children in public care (2002 - 2007)
- Contributed to induction training for Learning Mentors in Nottingham City (2002 - 2007)
- Early years and every child matters (Equality Training)
- Resilience: New Directions in Behaviour Support Conference
- Facilitated Communication: International Conference, Basel (Institute of Facilitated Communication, KAFCA,)
Relevant Links and Publications
Equality and inclusion:
Education for Social Justice: Achieving wellbeing for all - Laura Chapman and John West-Burnham (
amazon.co.uk)
Making Inclusion Happen in North East Lincolnshire - Sharing Good Practice (
2.2MB PDF document)
Snapshots of Possibility - Shining examples of inclusive education ( allfie.org.uk)
Equality Training - Hard hitting ideas , delivered with sweetness ( equalitytraining.co.uk)
Alliance for Inclusive Education (Alfie) ( allfie.org.uk)
Teaching and learning:
Personalised Learning - Tailoring learning solutions for every pupil - NCSL ( 1.01MB PDF document)
Leading Personalised Learning in Schools - NCSL ( 472KB PDF document)
Personalised Learning A Commentary byThe Teaching And Learning Research Programme ( 1.53MB PDF document)
Self Organised Learning: A gateway to personalising learning - Gerv Leyden and Jackie Dearden ( 18KB PDF document)
Self Organised Learning web site- The SOLution for Effective Learning ( selforganisedlearning.com)
Transforming Education for Every Child: A Practical Handbook - John West-Burnham ( 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 ( 32KB PDF document)
Resilience: a study of risk and protective factors from the perspective of young people with experience of local authority care ( ingentaconnect.com)
The Circle of Courage Philosophy - Reclaiming Youth Network ( 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 ( ingentaconnect.com - very slow)
Circle Of Friends:
Inclusion.com - Workshops, books, media, resources, ... ( inclusion.com)
Inclusive Solutions - Experienced educational psychologists specialising in mainstream inclusion ( inclusive-solutions.com)
Facilitated Communication Training:
CandLE - Communication and Learning Enterprises ( contactcandle.co.uk)
Syracuse University Facilitated Communication Institute ( soe.syr.edu)
DEAL Communication Centre Inc. in Australia ( deal.org.au)
Nottingham Trent University Communication for Inclusion Research Unit ( ntu.ac.uk)
Project KAFCA: Analysis of Facilitated Communication in people with autism ( ph-heidelberg.de)