Crafting Effective Recommendations in Diagnostic Reports: a Guide for Assessors (Secondary): SASC Authorised - 13 Feb 2025 to 13 Feb 2026: Patoss
Overview
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Date(s)13 Feb 2025 - 13 Feb 2026
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Cost£56.00
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ProviderPatoss
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Delivery typeDistance
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Course levelIntermediate
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Course summary
Presented by Louise Selby, this course offers guidance for how to write impactful and streamlined recommendations in diagnostic reports for secondary aged students
In this course, Louise will offer guidance on best practices for writing impactful recommendations for secondary-aged learners. She will cover strategies for crafting personalised recommendations tailored to the secondary school setting, ensuring they are both meaningful and effective.
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CPD credit hours1 hour and 30 minutes
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Course themesSpLD testing methods, interpretation, report writing, feedback and test materials
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AudienceAssessors, Support
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Website
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SASC CodeSASC-20241106-1280
Description
In our report recommendations, our goal is to give everything we can to enable the child to succeed. But how can we ensure our recommendations remain accessible and useful?
We'll begin this course by exploring core principles for writing effective recommendations, focusing on how to integrate what we've learned about the student, their educational setting, and their home environment. We'll discuss the balance between ideal goals and practical solutions, weighing quick wins against long-term strategies. Streamlining and simplifying recommendations to enhance usability will also be part of our conversation.
We’ll focus on providing actionable advice for classroom strategies and cross-curricular learning, including methods for delivering information, fostering metacognition, and building study skills from the outset. This session will explore making literacy recommendations across the curriculum, covering strategies for selecting class texts and promoting engaged reading. We’ll also discuss ways to integrate assistive technology and implement reasonable adjustments.
Consideration will be given to the whole-school environment, school culture, and life beyond the classroom. While this session will not focus on specialist tutoring, we’ll review school-based interventions, evaluate various approaches, weigh their pros and cons, and establish criteria to help select the most appropriate support for individual needs.
In the course delegates will consider in detail:
How to make personalised and streamlined recommendations
How to use what we know about the learner, their educational and home setting to make purposeful recommendations
How to make practical and useful recommendations that can be used in across the secondary curriculum and in intervention
Learning outcomes
Delegates will
Feel confident in making accessible and useful recommendations
Gain ideas for making recommendations that are impactful for the learner in school and intervention
Course prerequisites
This course is for assessors, both qualified and in training