‘A Right to Speak’ funded project concludes with a wonderful practice sharing event at Middlefield School

This month saw twenty ASL Practitioners from Glasgow City Council showcase their work following an Emotion Works training programme spanning 6 months. The project was aimed at helping pupils with communication and behavioural support needs exercise their right to speak and be understood.

Some examples of work shared at the event…

• Lessons helping younger primary age learners develop emotion vocabulary and understand the links between events, feelings and behaviours through the use of stories including… Handa’s Surprise; The Scarecrow who didn’t scare; and The Huge Bag of Worries.
• Profiling examples demonstrating observation and recording of the emotional triggers and responses of individual learners at a very early stage of communication.
• An example of how Emotion Works helped identify the underlying reasons for some ‘difficult to deal with’ behaviours.
• Evidence of how visual support can aid the understanding of tricky concepts such as ‘body sensations’, ‘behaviours’ and ‘regulation/feel better strategies’.
• Outreach work supporting P2 and P7 children develop an understanding of the Emotion Works ‘cog models’ at simpler and more complex levels.
• A number of examples showing how the Emotion Works approach is useful for post incident reflection and debriefing…for staff and young people.
• An honest look at the barriers faced and addressed when introducing Emotion Works to a diverse group of pupils.