SIN FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Session 1998 ?
Learning
EDUC
Disabilities:
424 - ?
Laboratory
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Office:
J.
McNamara
MPX 8646
Tel:
?
291-4548
D02.00 ?
E-mail: ikm@sfu.ca
PREREQUISITE
Corequisite: Educ 422
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to:
1.
Teach students to perform informal assessment of reading, writing and math problems.
2.
Teach students to understand how to set up an individual 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 progress of the students with learning disabilities.
STRUCTURE OF COURSE
During sessions July 6 through July 30 each SFU student will tutor a student with learning
disabilities. The first two lecture sessions (June 30 and July 2) will prepare students for initial
assessment and will also deal with teaching strategies that may be utilized to teach tutees. Daily
tutoring sessions will be preceded by lectures designed to guide and support SFU students through
their tutoring sessions and will provide guidelines for assignments. The last sessions (August 4 to
August 6) will be lecture format.
REQUIREMENTS
Assignments will include reports on assessment and tutoring. Details will be provided at the first
class meeting.
REQUIRED TEXTS
Wong, Bernice Y.L. (1996)The ABC's of Learning Disabilities. San Diego: Academic Press.
Assessment Manuals: Each SFU student will need to purchase one or two manuals for use in
course.
