The Springboard Curriculum: Assessment Framework. Inclusive Special Education from the Early Years and Beyond.
The Springboard Curriculum: Assessment Framework is a summative assessment for pupils with severe, complex and profound learning needs. It has been developed for use by teachers and therapists, enabling them to work together to capture and celebrate pupils’ small but significant changes in their learning and development over time.
The key to successful development is to recognise and build upon the unique characteristics and capabilities of each individual child. The Springboard Curriculum: Assessment Framework provides over 900 detailed and in-depth descriptions of how learning develops from a pupil reacting and responding to experiences in their environment to initiating engagement and actively participating. It enables educators to identify and record meaningful development across 14 Learning Aspects within the core curriculum areas of Cognition, Communication, Physical and Sensory and Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
For pupils with severe, complex and profound learning needs, evidence needs to be recorded daily. Through capturing photos and videos over time, educators can make accurate judgments about the consistency, independence and generalisation of skills across contexts. Accurate assessment informs effective and efficient therapeutic and educational planning to support pupils to develop into lifelong learners and achieve their maximum potential.
The Springboard Curriculum: Assessment Framework is relevant until it is considered that a pupil can follow subject specific learning. It has been used to capture learning in a UK local authority preschool for pupils with severe, complex and profound learning needs but is applicable beyond the early years. The Springboard Curriculum: Assessment Framework shares photos that evidence pupils’ learning in relation to each of the core curriculum areas, annotated learning journey examples and case studies of pupils who engaged in The Springboard Curriculum.
Other titles available in the series include:
The Springboard Curriculum: Inclusive Special Education in the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1
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