ICTS Trainers and Administrators : Profiles
 Richard Collisson
Email address:
r.collisson@inclusive.net
Communication Teacher and ICT Co-ordinator, Richard
Cloudesley School
"I qualified as a teacher in 1972 and started my career in
the depths of rural Warwickshire in a primary school. I have a number of posts
in both rural and inner-city schools in London. I have also had a spell in
1981-2 with VSO when I was Head of English in a Nigerian Teachers' Training
College.
I started teaching in Special Schools in 1989 and have had
my present post in Richard Cloudesley School since 1992. I am the
Communications Teacher and have responsibility for providing alternative access
systems to technology by using switches and supportive software. I work very
closely with my health authority colleagues in developing a multi-professional
apporach in these assessments. I work right across the age range from Early
Years to the School Leavers. I am also the ICT co-ordinator for the school.
I have been working with computers in schools since 1983
when I was working for the Language Resource Centre in Walthamstow. I recall
taking in my own BBC A and a cassette version of 'Granny's Garden'. The Head
recluctantly agreed that I should use the large TV as a monitor and my small
group of six students quickly grew as two classes hovered around me.
I strongly support the move toward Inclusion and believe
that ICT can help to break down many of the barriers that are currently
preventing our students from becoming more involved in their local
neighbourhood schools. I was asked by Islington's SEN adviser to run an ICT
workshop at a Borough-wide conference, 'Moving Towards Inclusion'. I have also
worked with the Learning Support Service teachers to introduce them to ways in
which ICT can ehance the educational experience of the students they are
supporting."
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