EDU 622 Meeting the Needs of All Students
Description
This course provides teachers with proven strategies to help them reach all of their students regardless of ability, language development, race, socioeconomic status, gender and/or learning challenges. Practical and ethical techniques to meet the needs of special student populations are included.
Participants learn how to apply strategies to increase student engagement, address students’ individual learning styles and verify the effectiveness of the strategies used. Strategies for strengthening partnerships with parents to facilitate academic achievement of students are also explored and implemented.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Participants will be able to:
• Explain and demonstrate what it means to teach responsively
• Deepen understanding of student variance and apply strategies to support cognitive impairments, difficulties attending to task, learning disabilities, English language learners, above-average abilities and students who are at risk of failure
• Identify, examine and apply the nine attitudes and skills of teaching that help all learners
• Employ classroom management techniques that allow for flexible instruction and support responsive teaching
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