Your strategy for teaching students with SEN shouldn’t vary too much from your existing plans. However, understanding what difficulties these pupils face in the classroom on a daily basis, can help you to adapt your teaching in order for them to get the most out of it. In this guide, our aim is to provide you with our top four ways to support pupils with SEN by providing strategies that can be adapted to any classroom setting.

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It is generally accepted that teachers should first learn to teach in a mainstream setting before moving into a specialised Special Educational Needs (SEN) role, but this is not always possible. My own experience in teaching highlights this. My first job out of university was in the school I had completed my final year placement in. I loved the school and had done well in my last observations and received top grades. The day before term started, I was invited back to cover sick leave in the school's Senior Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) class. Nothing could have prepared me for the weeks that followed. I questioned how I had ended up in a position where, after four years of study, I knew nothing.