Odd Socks and Docs
Odd Socks and Docs is a podcast aimed at anyone working in a
Special Educational Needs & Disabilities setting. Primarily teaching children and young people with severe and complex and profound learning difficulties.
I hope this will be helpful to anyone with an interest in SEND including parents and other professionals in medical and social roles.
Episodes
45 episodes
Soup
How a simple lesson of making soup can be developed into a community project with cross curricular links in reading, maths, social skills, independence skills, real life skills of shopping. In addition providing a great link for parents to work...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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25:06
Assault
Unfortunately when living or working with some students with severe learning difficulties with challenging behaviours it is likely that you may get assaulted. In this episode I reflect on this and look at ways to reduce the risk and then look a...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:09:49
Monet
How my love for Monet lead to a term of beautiful art work with my mixed ability SEND class. With the added bonus of beautiful displays, cards and gifts not to mention all the other skills and great behaviour.
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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17:16
Help cards
A simple bespoke card for students and their supporters, or independent people with SEND to carry. These cards should immediately tell a member of the public or services how best to help when someone is in crisis or has had an accident.
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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17:47
Tombola
Another idea for making Maths a fun activity whilst teaching other valuable life skills. Easy to adapt to age appropriate groups and easy to differentiate for individual students.
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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19:01
Button Box
An idea for series of maths lessons that can be easily adapted and differentiated. The students have fun and their learning crosses into important areas of the curriculum including literacy, life skills and motor skills.
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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21:49
What is important?
The last episode of Series 2! When there just seems to be so many things that need to be done and taught, how do you decide what to prioritise and what is important to the students and parents!Have a wonderful Christmas break and make sure ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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23:30
The Great British Bake Off
How working collaboratively with TA's can produce a fabulous term long project with lots of important learning outcomes beyond baking skills.
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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19:20
Developing Good Relationships with Parents.
When you work together with parents you get the best outcomes for their children. They can be an incredible resource and no one knows their child like they do. In this episode I look at developing those relationships.
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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32:54
Pancakes
How making pancakes weekly became a highly successful motivating lesson. Involving multi disciplinary work, lots of cross curricular links and real life skills that parents could practise with them at home.
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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31:17
The Tuck Shop
Working with a difficult class using a highly motivating carrot! Running a tuck shop had many learning objectives in life skills, social skills, working collaboratively, fine motor skills and maths skills. All the students showed ve...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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22:37
Jingle Bells
The magic and joy of Christmas, following traditions and making them special for your students and their parents. So many learning opportunities to be found in these activities.
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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30:50
Feel the Beat
Music is universal in it's appeal, simple percussion instruments are very accessible making drumming a very inclusive activity and a way of teaching new skills and creating great memories.
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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19:36
Visual Aids
The importance of using visual aids in SEND settings and having system that is best fit for everyone. Understanding that a visual aid can be anything from the real thing to a rather obscure symbol.
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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27:50
Foiling around
A perfect activity for any group, any ability, 1 to 1 or large group, any age! No planning and lots of learning.An activity that is fun, creative and all that is required is some good tin foil!
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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21:35
Chilled Friday Afternoons
How a leisurely Arts and Craft lesson can lead to many other teaching opportunities in a lovely calm inclusive environment.
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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27:47
Awesomely Autistic
Sometimes as a teacher one of your students will teach you more than you teach them. this was the case with the unforgettable James. I am honoured to have his mum as a guest in this episode where she gives valuable insights into her world as pa...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:05:04
Managing Stress and Exhaustion
Teaching and working in classrooms can be very exhausting and stressful. This episode gives a few reminders of how to best help yourself manage this.
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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28:31
Wonderful Walking
This episode is about the benefits of walking. Simplicity in its self, inclusive, inexpensive and brilliant for physical and mental health of students and staff.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:48
Regulation or states of arousal
A discussion about how the state of arousal or what level of regulation a student has can massively impact their behaviour and learning. some tips on how to manage this.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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48:18
Managing challenging behaviour as a small woman
This episode looks at how to manage challenging, often aggressive behaviour, if you are smaller and less strong than a student in crisis.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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43:05
Setting your classroom as a great learning environment
The first episode of Series 2, welcome back after the summer holiday! In this episode I talk about how to prepare your staff and room to make a great learning environment, laying the foundations for a great school year.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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37:40
Talking to a friend and Early Careers Teacher
In this episode I chat to a friend who came as a volunteer, then became a Dinner Lady, then a Teaching Assistant and then went to university qualifying as a teacher. We chat about her first year as a teacher of the early years in a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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49:17
Inclusion of students with the highest level of support for learning
This episode follows on from the previous episode and we discuss successful inclusion of the students with the highest need for support.
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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48:21
Students with the highest level of support due to both medical needs and learning difficulties.
A rare insight into this group of students from a former member of the school nursing team. It is an uplifting episode and her love and passion for her work really shine through!
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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44:40