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CONT816: Teaching Students with Communication Needs (Learning Disability)

CONT 816
Continuing Teacher Education - Ontario
3 Units
Online
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This course focuses on the theory and practice to support students with learning disabilities. Throughout this course, you will explore the various definitions and characteristics of learning disabilities. Through discussion and collaborations, you will discover cognitive, academic, and social-emotional implications of LD and generate ways to develop a positive learning environment for students with LD. You will address how social-emotional issues affect academic outcomes, research various academic strategies, and brainstorm the implications of psychological processes for students with LD. You will be provided with the opportunity to apply your learning to developing student profiles, transition plans, and gain applicable strategies that you can use in your teaching practice.

This course focuses on learning disabilities (LD):

  • what they are
  • implications of having a learning disability
  • learning theories and programs that help students with LD
  • creating conditions that promote and maintain an inclusive and positive classroom and school
  • importance of collaborating with school-based teams and community personnel Course

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Learning Outcomes

What You Will Learn and Do

In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to

  • adopt a critical, pedagogical lens to explore learning theory and the theoretical foundations of teaching students with learning disabilities
  • investigate biases and systemic barriers that students with learning disabilities experience
  • collaboratively explore learning environments, pedagogical practices and instructional strategies to support students with learning disabilities
  • design, implement and monitor programs to support students with learning disabilities
  • learn about the role of technology in the learning environment
  • develop practices that promote a shared responsibility to support learning, well-being, equity and inclusion

Assessments

Module 1

Learning Disabilities in Ontario

Module 2

Learning Disabilities in Depth
Progress Update 1

Module 3

Learning Environments

Module 4

Instructional Strategies and Supports
Progress Update 2

Module 5

Planning for the Learner

Module 6

Interventions
Progress Update 3

Module 7

Final Task
Final Report