Course Topic: Special Needs
In the classroom, both students and teachers have to face a great variety of situations. Classrooms, in fact, may welcome disadvantaged learners, including migrant students, students with ASD or ADHD and kids with other special needs.
It’s extremely important to involve students with special needs in the classroom environment and make them feel included.
Discover more about how to ensure your classroom feels inclusive to all students (including those with special needs) with the following courses.
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Explore hands-on activities designed to prevent isolation and disruptive behaviors, with a focus on interaction and support. Discover effective relaxation techniques and movement-based activities suitable for special needs students and the entire class.
Art as Therapy: Self-Expression and Special Needs in Art Education
Acquire an understanding of the therapeutic power of visual arts and their importance in teaching students with special needs.
Successful Strategies for Teaching Students with Special Needs in Every Classroom
Explore diverse teaching and assessment methods, strategies, and tools for instructing students with special needs in both mainstream and special education settings. Learn to design differentiated activities effectively in a diverse classroom.
Drama Techniques: Developing Self-Expression, Communication and Social Skills for All Students
Learn an array of new ways to boost participation, motivation, and confidence in the classroom through the implementation of innovative solutions that are more practical and expressive, and therefore, more enjoyable.
Instructional Strategies to Address the Diverse Needs of All Students
Discover the approach for Universal Design Learning and the strategy for Differentiation, to design an accessible educational framework that addresses the needs of all students.
Designing Inclusive Learning Environments to Support all Students
Learn to establish a framework of inclusive values and practices, both within a school and in collaboration between institutions, as a strategy to deal with diversity in an appropriate and sensitive manner.
Inclusive Education for School Leaders: Setting the Vision and Agenda
Acquire strategic managerial tools to promote inclusion in schools. Explore different leadership approaches and develop skills to create inclusive environments. Learn how to assess and improve school inclusivity.
Understanding and Supporting Students With ASD and ADHD
Acquire the skills to effectively teach students with ASD and ADHD, adapting educational techniques to suit their unique learning styles. Provide support in helping them manage impulses and better understand the world around them.
Embracing Diversity, Preventing Bullying and Violence
Deepen the knowledge of the underlying dynamics of discrimination and bullying in schools, as they tend to have negative effects on learning.
Dyslexia and Inclusive Language Teaching
Learn to create a more inclusive environment for students with different levels of dyslexia and become aware of the skills and attitudes necessary to teach such students, all while working on your own feelings.
The Finnish Approach to Children with Special Needs: Promoting Learning and Growth
Discover the 3-staged model that Finnish primary schools use to promote the learning and personal growth of students with special needs. Explore the possible difficulties and challenges that such students may have upon entering the classroom.