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Professional Development Course In Specific Learning Disability

Curriculum

Introduction to Specific Learning Difficulties and Early Identification

Introduction and characteristics of SLD
Informal Assessments
Early Intervention for Preschoolers
Multi-sensory Teaching Approach –Orton Gillingham Approach
Lesson Plan - Guidelines to Intervention
Perceptual Deficits and LD

Reading and Reading Comprehension

Understanding and tactics for Reading Difficulties Intervention
Phonological Awareness
Frames of Diagnosis
Word Mapping
Vocabulary and Language Development
Fundamentals in Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Opportunities: Work as educational and remedial therapists for students in a mainstream environment with Specific Learning Difficulties. The course fees include online work, course materials, a spelling box, an odd word list, and basic testing flashcards.

Program description

A learning strategy refers to a person’s approach to learning and utilizing information. Students who lack knowledge of effective learning strategies often engage in passive learning and struggle academically. Strategic instruction aims to transform students into active learners. The workshop is designed to train teachers in refining students’ study skills. The Strategies Instructional approach aims to improve learning skills, thereby enhancing academic performance in the classroom.

Learning Strategies

The Word Identification Strategy assists in decoding multi-syllable words.
The Word Mapping Strategy is designed to help students predict the meaning of unknown words by identifying meaningful parts of words and using them for prediction, thereby enhancing comprehension.
The Self-Questioning Strategy encourages students to engage actively with text by generating questions, predicting answers, searching for answers, and independently paraphrasing.
The Visual Imagery Strategy, a reading comprehension strategy, prompts students to visualize scenery, characters, and action, aiding in comprehension as they describe these scenes to themselves.
The Paraphrasing Strategy aids in identifying main ideas and details, facilitating the rephrasing of content in one’s own words.
Fundamentals of Paraphrasing & Summarizing provides essential skills for paraphrasing, focusing on translating information, identifying main ideas and details, which are foundational for paraphrasing and summarizing.
The Sentence Writing Strategy program consists of two parts: Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy and Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy. These components collectively enable the recognition and writing of 14 sentence patterns.
The Paragraph Writing Strategy organizes ideas related to a topic, plans the point of view and verb tense, sequences ideas, and crafts various topic, detail, and clincher sentences.

Content Enhancement Routine

The Concept Mastery Routine assists students in comprehending and mastering key concepts within the curriculum content.
The Lesson Organizer Routine aids classroom teachers in introducing and structuring lessons for students.
The Survey Routine enables classroom teachers to offer an overview of a new chapter of a textbook that will serve as a resource in a unit of instruction.
The Unit Organizer Routine introduces a new unit, providing students with a ‘Big Picture’ view and understanding key relationships within the unit. (Note: This routine is not included in the provided text.)

Study Skills to Enhance Content Learning

Lesson Organizer
Concept Mastery
Question Exploration

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