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EDUCATION 424?

Summer Semester 2009

Dr. Maureen Hoskyn

Office: EDB 7641

Phone: 778-782-5808

Email: mhoskyn@sfu.ca

Thursday 8:30-12:20 EDB 7600B

Tutorials July 6-24 only

DiOl EDB 7600 9:00-10:30 Mon-Fri

D102 EDB 7600 10:30-12:00 Mon-Fri

Objectives:

Education 424 provides SFU students with an opportunity to provide

individualized instruction to children with learning disabilities. In the Summer 2007 lab,

SFU students will be responsible for a.) conducting an informal assessment of each

child's learning difficulties and b) providing intervention for one hour/day during the

tutorial sessions in the summer. Some visits to children's home schools will be required

prior to the summer tutorial. All Education 424 students will be required to obtain a

criminal record check prior to working with the children.

Pre-requisite (or concurrent):

Education 422

Time requirements:

Each SFU student will be required to attend a lecture as indicated as well as

commit to a one hour daily tutorial session, beginning Monday, July 6 and continuing

Monday to Friday until Friday, July 24 th

Each SFU student will sign up for one time slot

at time of registration, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

PARTICIPATION IN THE

DAILY TUTORIAL IN JULY IS MANDATORY. For each day that an SFU

student does not attend (with or without a reasonable excuse) 10% of the total

marks for the course will be deducted.

Course assignments:

Assessments

25 marks

Class assignments

35 marks

Lesson Plans

15 marks

Final report

25 marks

Course texts: Orchestrating Success in Reading