Course Overview, Tips plus Q&A
Designed for educators, SENCOs, support staff, and school leaders who want to deliver inclusive, trauma-informed, and neurodivergent-affirming online education. The course is aligned to Gaia’s principles and supports the use of the GaiaBloom platform.
Core Focus Areas
- Building relational safety and emotional regulation as foundations for learning
- Teaching strategies that affirm neurodivergent identities
- Executive function and social-emotional supports
- Mixed-age and mixed-ability pedagogy
- Interest-based and spiral curriculum design
- Differentiated instruction and varied expression
- Using data (Gaialytics) to understand the whole learner
- Managing behaviour and boundaries without shame
- Designing flexible online provision using GaiaBloom
- Reflective and sustainable educator practice
- Action planning and implementation at individual or school level
