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Summer Semester 2001
EDUC 424 - 4 ?
Dr. Bernice Wong
Learning Disabilities: Laboratory
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Office: EDB 9505
Phone: 291-4115
Wednesdays 13:00-16:50 in EDB 8620 ?
D01.00
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E-mail: bwong@sfu.ca
(July tutoring sessions moved to WMX)
PREREQUISITES
Corequisite: Educ 422
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed with several objectives in mind:
(1)
To teach students informal assessments in reading, math, spelling, and writing;
(2)
To teach students to interpret their informal assessment data with students with learning
disabilities;
(3)
To provide students with supervised experience in tutoring a student with learning disabilities;
(4)
To teach students to monitor and evaluate their own teaching of the students with learning
disabilities.
Lectures followed by tutorials occur every Weds from 1:00-4:50 pm throughout the semester. In July,
there will be three weeks of one-on-one tutoring of students with learning disabilities.
Tutoring
begins on July 3rd and ends on July 19th, one-hour daily Tues, Weds, Thurs, three mornings a
week.
There will be two shifts of tutoring: 10:00-11:00 am; 11:20-12:20 noon. Priority for the 10-11:00
am tutoring shift is given to SFU students who have an 11 am class or whose tutee's mother has to
work.
(Please attend to the time demands in tutoring in July. If you cannot fit in this tutoring, please do not enroll in
the course.)
ASSIGNMENTS
practice testing (5 cases)
5%
Initial Assessment
15%
Remedial Plan (IEP)
15%
Teaching
15%
Prompts
10%
Graphs
10%
Final Assessment
15%
Reflective Logs
15%
Assignments will be explained in class.
REQUIRED TEXT
Wong, B.Y.L. The ABC's of Learning Disabilities San Diego: Academic Press, 1996.
ISBN 0-12-762545-3.
Assessment Manuals to be purchased in SFU bookstore (SFU students who plan to tutor students with
LD from Intermediate grades, please purchase both Primary and Intermediate manuals. Those
planning to tutor primary or secondary students with LD, please purchase manuals entitled primary
or secondary. If anyone wants to purchase all three manuals, you are free to do so).
In this course, you will find that you need to spend about $20 to make teaching prompts for your
tutees.
