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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Session 1999
EDUC 424 - 4
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J.
Makkar
Learning Disabilities: Laboratory
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Office: TBA
Tel: TBA
D03.00
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E-mail: jmakkar@sfu.ca
PREREQUISITE
Corequisite: Educ 422
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to:
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Teach students to perform informal assessment of reading, writing and math problems.
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Teach students to understand how to set up an individual educational plan for a student
with learning disabilities.
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Teach students to teach a child or adolescent with learning disabilities.
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Teach students to monitor and evaluate progress of the students with learning disabilities.
STRUCTURE OF COURSE
The first two lecture sessions
(June 28 and 30)
will prepare students for initial assessment
will also deal with teaching strategies that may be utilized to teach tutees. During sessions
July 5 through July 22
each student will tutor a student with learning disabilities. 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
(July 26 to July 28) will
be lecture format. Final reports will be due during the first week of
August.
REQUIREMENTS
Assignments will include reports on assessment and tutoring. There will be one of two mini
tests based on the required text/instructor placed readings in the library. 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 the course (approx $15).
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