Day 1

Welcome – registrations

Presentation of participants

Expectations from the training course

Introduction/Orientation: The aim is to help to get the participants oriented to the objectives and contents of the course.

• Introduction of content, training methods and training material
• Terms used when catering for students with special educational needs.
• Types of Learning Disabilities
• The term ‘inclusion’ and its historical development.
• Identification of ways in which learning difficulties and disabilities impact on the learning of students.
• Insight into coping with a learning difficulty.
• Legislation
• Test for learning disabilities
• How to determine a student’s learning needs, using multiple sources of information
• Learning Theories
• Assessment

Day 2

• Different models of programming to support the learning of all students.
• Devise a model of programming and reflect on classroom practice.
• Understand the range of differentiation options available for meeting the needs of students with learning difficulties and disabilities.
• Purpose of Individual Education Plans (IEP).
• How to manage the process of developing an IEP for a student.
• Identification strategies for involving others in the development of an IEP.
• Case study – Role play Individual Education Plan

Day 3

• Processes for effective teaching.
• Meaning of ‘effective instruction’ and ‘explicit teaching’.
• Strategies that can be used to enhance teaching and learning for students with learning difficulties and disabilities.
• Understand what is meant by ‘strategy instruction’.
• Identification of the strategies that can be used in classrooms.
• Processes for monitoring and reporting student learning.
• How evidence from student learning maybe used to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.

Day 4

• Processes for monitoring and recording.
• Identification of a range of reporting approaches that provide rich information to families about their children’s learning.
• The nature and value of collaborative relationships.
• Features of effective collaborative relationships.
• Ways of working with para educators.
• Ways of effectively collaborating with other educators and allied professionals.
• Techniques Empower students
• ROLE PLAY EXERCISE

Day 5

Future plan for students

Reflection

Evaluation of the training course

Certificates – Europass Mobility

Closure and farewell