Within This Issue
The theme for this issue is professional development and training. The articles that fit the professional development theme are quite varied: concerns about the lack of training for teachers in schools where children with PMLD are being educated and the gradual loss of trained teachers as the workforce ages and retires; suggestions about what schools might do to alleviate the situation; ways of ensuring training is followed up by developments in the classroom; use of coaching techniques, particularly joint problem solving; and a few shorter pieces on professional development matters.
There are articles that are not specifically about professional development and training: technology and environmental control for pupils with PMLD; combining the arts and ICT; preparing children for transition from a residential special school to their adult life; a Transition Learning Programme at a community college; and using scaffolding to help one child with complex needs improve her matching skills.
