ABSTRACT
This chapter covers barriers to learning for pupils with SEND and how to overcome them, learning styles, the features of high-quality teaching. It also explains developing thinking skills, different stages of child development informing the adaptation of teaching. Barriers to learning offers teachers and trainee teachers a useful checklist with further suggestions for overcoming and removing barriers to learning and participation for pupils with SEND. Differentiation ensures equality of learning opportunities to enable all learners, irrespective of their ability, to make progress. It offers a range of strategies, activities and techniques that allow teachers to secure the best progress possible for the pupils in their classes. Child development refers to the stepped progress children make in acquiring physical, social, emotional, cognitive and language skills during particular developmental time periods, measured against expected levels of progression in each skill area, which are known as developmental milestones.
