Essential Skills

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Essential Skills

• Cardinal Newman College
• Preston

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Promoting Active and Participative learning for
SLDD Learners with ILT

• To enhance teaching and learning
• To promote learners and teachers skills by
  integrating ILT in curriculum that is not
  traditionally associated with ILT
• To provide equality of opportunity for learners
• Disseminate good practice across college and
  between colleges
• To provide student activities on line

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Benefits for learners

• Learners will have appropriate resources to
  enhance curriculum delivery and skills related to
  the use of interactive materials that enhance
  learning and develop skills.

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Benefits for staff

• To increase the use of ILT within teaching and
  provide the impetus for the enhancement of good
  practice within the classroom

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Learning Strategies for Students Learning
Disability

• Encouraging, supportive classroom
• Student made to feel a valued member of class
• Recognise efforts, improvement and task
  completion
• Opportunities for positive self-expression,
  beginning first in a small group setting

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Learning Strategies for Students Learning
Disability

• Have a buddy system
• Allow each learner to work at own pace
• Encourage alternate forms of presentation, e.g.
  spoken instead of written
• Encourage risk-taking (Its OK to make mistakes
• Encourage students to set own goals for
  completion of work
• Use lots of visuals and lots of hands-on
  activities

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Teaching Strategies

• Incidental teaching-encourage learning from
  opportunities arising in classroom
• Analysing an incident and explain alternatives
  e.g. if that didnt work what could?
• Coaching emotional response-explain and handle
  emotions
• Peer tutoring
• Collaborative teaching-cooperative learning and
  problem solving

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What Scheme of WORK?

• Individual learning celebrated
• Learners direct pace of own learning
• Learners owning own progression and achievement
• Clear understanding of end product
• Learners empowered to bring ideas to lesson
• Formative assessment used actively

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End Result

• All learners participated regardless of ability
• All learners achieved interaction with computer
• All learners had a part to play
• Differentiation in action

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End Result
Students own pages
What we learnt