ABSTRACT
The Special Needs teacher (Section I) and the educational psychologist (Section II) are placed side by side in this section. The first will work mainly in the school, of course; the second will usually come from a centrally maintained Local Education Authority team, one of the few groups of professionals that LEAs are still required to retain. In other ways, the roles of SEN teachers and the educational psychologist may well overlap. They will liaise over certain children with learning and/or behavioural difficulties, and they will collaborate with mainstream colleagues in devising programmes for individual boys and girls. The SEN teacher will help colleagues to differentiate work and to implement a model of assessment through teaching. The educational psychologist, in contrast, will work with several schools, in a range from nursery to secondary, and provide further support for teachers in terms of staff development courses, reviews of current practice and assessment and monitoring.
