EDUC 424 - 4 Learning Disabilities: Laboratory

Section: D2.00

Scheduled Final Exam: No

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Instructor: B. Wong

Office: 9505mpc

Tel: 291-4115

Fax: 291-3203

E-mail: Bernice_Wong@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

Corequisite: Educ 422

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to:

1.

Teach students to perform informal assessments of reading and math problems;

2. Teach students to understand how to set up an individualized educational plan for a student with learning

disabilities;

3.

Teach students to teach a child or adolescent with learning disabilities;

4.

Teach students to monitor and evaluate the learning progress of the students with learning disabilities, and in tun to

evaluate their own teaching of such students.

OBJECTIVES

In July, for 2 weeks (July 15th - 25th) each SFU student will tutor a student with learning disabilities one hour daily four

mornings a week, Monday to Thursday. There will be two shifts in tutoring: lOam-ham; 11:15am to 12:15 noon.

Note: Please attend to the time demands in tutoring in

July. If you cannot fit in this tutoring, please do not enroll in the

course.

REQUIREMENTS

LECTURES, LAB ACTIVITIES, TUTORING

A detailed outline of lectures and lab activities will be distributed the first day of class.

READINGS

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REQ REC

0-12-762530-5 ?

Wong, B.Y.L. (Ed.)

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San Diego: Academic Learning about Learning

Press (1991) ?

Disabilities

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