Date for Online Session: The pre-recorded material can be accessed from 1st July - 18th September 2020
Date & Time for Live Twilight Sessions: Tuesday 22nd September and Wednesday 30th September 2020 between 4:00-6:00pm. Please note that you need to attend both twilight sessions as the content will by different.
Cost: Parent/Carers £25, Professionals £120. Prices are per person.
21 Together hold a strong belief that no family should be denied access to training due to finances. Our Financial Support Policy and application form is available upon request.
Venue: At Home
Provider: Inclusively Down
Overview and Purpose:
This course is aimed at staff, professionals and parents who have not had any previous training and whose children are pre-readers or in the early stages of learning to read. This course will include an emphasis on teaching your child to read and will enable you to teach and support pupils with Down syndrome more effectively. It will cover the key elements of the specific learning profile, how you can best support progress, dispel some myths and give you strategies and resource ideas, based on research and good practice, to ensure you can meet their individual learning needs. We will also consider the role of the support assistant and what effective inclusion looks like.
Topic areas to be covered:
Learning profile
Inclusion & Support (role of the TA)
Teaching Reading (early stages) which will include some comprehension and recommended schemes and resources
Supporting access to the curriculum within good inclusive practice
AIMS/OUTCOMES:
By the end of this session you will…
understand the impact of having Down syndrome
be aware of the typical learning profile of pupils with Down syndrome
be able to implement strategies to teach reading
be able to identify how you can best support progress
be able to recognise what teaching strategies will work best
be able to demonstrate good inclusive practice and differentiate appropriately
Twilight Sessions:
The twilight sessions will focus on ‘reading’ (with the emphasis on beginning reading and literacy skills, access to the curriculum).
The first twilight session will include a Q&A session at the beginning following on from the learning profile and inclusion online training you will have completed previously.
The second twilight session will include a Q&A session at the end to follow up on any reading and differentiation queries.