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Employability Training for Sixth form Learners with Special Educational Needs: Preparing for Success?
Author(s) -
McLoughlin Matt
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.12218
Subject(s) - employability , principal (computer security) , psychology , good practice , medical education , special educational needs , training (meteorology) , special needs , special education , pedagogy , mathematics education , medicine , computer science , engineering , physics , psychiatry , meteorology , engineering ethics , operating system
This article reports a case study, carried out to determine how successfully one school’s provision was preparing its learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to move into some form of employment. Data were obtained from the principal stakeholders: staff, parent/carers and students. This was generated by questionnaires and observations of learning in the classroom, as well as the school’s assessment data. Interviews with staff from other post‐16 providers were used to give examples of good practice in other contexts. The study found that although much good practice was evident, there were opportunities to improve the preparation of students