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EDUCATION 375-0

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(T1.00)

NON CREDIT ONLY

SPECIAL TOPIC:

INTEGRATING LOW INCIDENCE HANDICAPPED - ELEMENTARY

Summer Session, 1991

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Instructor: ?

Al Etmanski

(July 25 - August 3)

Monday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Location: Clerihue Building, Room D132

University of Victoria

PREREQUISITE:

Educ 4011402, or equivalent and certified practising teacher.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This Institute will explore innovative responses to the challenge of making

schools places where all

children are welcome. It is an opportunity to reflect

on your personal gifts and the strengths of students who are devalued for

functional or social reasons. It will develop or clarify strategies at the

personal, classroom, school, and community level for creating positive change

for students who are powerless, devalued, and marginal.

This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to:

1)

gain a vision for inspired and creative education

2)

explore and appreciate the obvious as well as subtle infringements, abuses,

and devaluing which people with disabilities and others encounter and

endure

3)

develop and clarify their critical thinking on these moral and ethical issues

4)

reflect on how values play a role in shaping and developing a curriculum

5)

understand and implement networks of support using MAPS - Multi-

Action Planning System - and CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

6)

identify the formal and informal resources which exist in communities and

schools which can be used for their mutual advantage

7)

develop action plans to create educational change in their home community

8)

clarify their teaching principles and practice.

The course will deal with the following themes in more detail:

1)

Values and Understanding

2)

Creating an Inclusive Community in the Classroom

3)

Building Bridges to Neighbourhoods and Communities

4)

Staff Development - Creating Magic Moments

5)

Curriculum Design, Adaptation and Modification

6)

Leadership - Strategies for Change - Friendly Persuasion

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COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

1)

Record a daily journal of your personal reflections on the day's events

which you will share each day with a new partner who will give you a

written response.

2)

Do the readings and participate in small group discussions daily.

3)

Work in small groups exploring an issue affecting people with disabilities

or another group of devalued people. This will entail out of class work in

the community. Students will be expected to creatively present in class:

a)

A brief summary of the issue, barrier, concern

b)

Formal supports available in the community

c)

Informal supports available in the community

d)

Submit a proposed plan of action to stimulate understanding and

educational change with colleagues, administrators, Boards,

community leaders, people with disabilities and their families.

EVALUATION/GRADING

Participation and attendance are key. Your final mark will be based on a one—

page self—evaluation. You grade yourself, either A or B, and the reason you

gave yourself the grade. Be as creative as you want (music, poetry, drama,

prose).