This course is for all Access Arrangements Assessors, both in the UK and overseas, who are interested in carrying out access arrangements assessments remotely. It will also be of interest to SENCos and Access Arrangements Coordinators who require remote assessments for their students.
The course provides guidance for carrying out assessments for access arrangements over a live video call. This includes:
The course tutors are Caroline Read and Lia Castiglione.
Caroline is one of the founders of Communicate-ed. She is a specialist teacher who has practical experience in all areas of the access arrangements process and trains for local authorities, universities and SEND services. Caroline has contributed to a range of publications, including academic journals. She has worked with a number of publishers to develop tests, and has been involved in various DfE and Ofqual training and policy projects. She was a member of the working party that established the Access Arrangements Online system. In 2024 Caroline was presented with a University of Roehampton Chancellor’s Alumni Award, for Innovation and Inspiration in her industry.
Lia has been teaching and supporting learners of all ages for over 30 years and in varying educational settings. She is a specialist teacher assessor who is highly experienced in all aspects of access arrangements, has held a current Assessment Practising Certificate since 2008 and regularly assesses in schools and colleges. An accomplished educational trainer, Lia is the co-creator of a postgraduate access arrangements assessor course and is the author of the Patoss/JCQ book, ‘Assessing the Need for Access Arrangements’. She works as an independent educational consultant through her company ‘Castiglione Consulting Ltd’.
This course is available as a prerecorded video course that you can access at any time convenient for you over a period of 10 days from your selected start date.
When you select to book an online course, you will be able to select a start date.
From this date, you will have ten consecutive days access to your chosen course (unless the course specifies otherwise).
Once you have filled in your details and submitted the booking, you should receive a couple of emails within a few minutes. One of these will confirm you order and payment. The other will be a confirmation email for the course and include login details to access your course.
If you select today as your start date, the login details should work from the time you receive the email. If you have chosen a start date in the future, the login details will only work from that date.
You will be able to access any video presentations and course notes for ten days. Assessments can only be taken once. Please note that if you have watched all the video presentations through once and then log back into the website to go over the material again, you will get the following message: ‘You are not registered for any courses at this time’. To get back into the course you need to:
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This course is not assessed.
You can book online using the form below. Courses costing £40 or less must be paid for online with a debit or credit card.