EDUC Outline

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY?

(E100)

Renee Gowdy

Email: reneegowdy@shaw.ca

Seminar: Wednesday 5:30-9:20pm Harbour Centre Campus Room 2245

Tutorials E101, E102

Mon,Tues,Wed,Thu,Fri July 6-July 24

E101 9:00- 10:30 Room 2540

E102 10:30 - 12:00 Room 2540

PREREQUISITE/CO-REQUISITE:

EDUC 422

Course Content

EDUC 424

provides students with practical experience teaching young children at risk for acquiring

learning disabilities. In addition to the tutoring project, you will be reading about and discussing

contemporary issues regarding assessment and remedial strategies for students with learning disabilities.

The course can be conceptualized in three overlapping modules.

Module One: Informal Assessment of Reading Development

The main objective of this module therefore, is to give you the tools to identify a child's developmental

reading level.

Module Two: Planning Intervention and Dynamic Assessment

Module two focuses on planning intervention for a particular student and ways to monitor learning

throughout the intervention process. An assessment (as conducted in Module one) is meaningless

unless it can be linked to intervention in some way. The first goal of this module is to help you make

these links. Second, we will review ways that student learning is 'explicitly' measured over time as

children respond to our teaching practices. Both skills are critical for teachers to assist children with

reading problems.

Module Three: Implementing and Evaluation of an Intervention Program

A major portion of your time in this course will be spent delivering an intervention program to a child

one-on-one. You will assess a school-aged student's learning difficulties. Then, you will develop and

implement a plan of remediation for that student. To accomplish this project, you will need to tutor a

student from July 6-24. We will provide you with a tutee.

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EDUC Outline

Initial Assessment & Protocols ?

20

Remedial Program Plan

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Lesson Plans ?

15

Tutoring ?

20

Final Assessment/End of Session Report ?

20

Required Reading Materials

Carnine, W. C. et al. (2006). Teaching Struggling and At-Risk Readers. A Direct Instruction Approach.

Pearson Merrill Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 0-13-170732-9

Johns, J. J. (2008). Basic Reading Inventory: Pre-Primer through grade 12 and early literacy

assessments (10th Ed.). Kendall/Hunt Publishing. ISBN:

978-0-7575-5127-7

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