Understanding
Learning and behavioural difficulties
This course is designed for you to
take from home as a distance learning programme and we are very excited
about it as it is available worldwide... thats you!
The organisation doesn't have a web
site so we volunteered our services to get this information to you as we
considered it very worthwhile.The course looks at learning and behavioural
difficulties and how these are related, Dyslexia, ADHD, dealing with behavioural
difficulties.
Other topics include:
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practical ways
to help children with learning and behavioural difficulites ~modifications
and strategies
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behavioural management,
behavioural contracts, helpful teacher behaviour, language, modification
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ADHD ~ features,
medication, practical strategies and classroom techniques
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counselling and
helping relationships
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developing organisational
skills, study skills, metacognition
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social skills
training to help behavioural difficulties
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advocacy and self-advocacy
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coping with aggression
and aggressive behaviour
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the need for a
whole school approach
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teaching children
with low literacy skills
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a range of other
strategies and techniques
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Doing this
course may interest you in several ways
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to increase
your knowledge and be able to help children and teenagers with learning
and behavioural difficulties
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To add another
area of confidence to your CV
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to gain
practical and effective ways to manage students
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to understand
and help a family member
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This is a four month distance (correspondence)
course which starts March 20th 2000 and ends July 21st 2000.
How much time
is needed each week?
That is a difficult question because
everyone comes from different backgrounds, knowledge, skills and circumstances.
The best guess would be 5+ hours a week
There are 4 assignments about a
month apart, the first involves 10 paragraphs of 150 words, two are 1500
word essay type and one case study due by the end of the course. You are
supplied with course materials and a reading list. |
The course
was originally designed for teachers and teachers' aides, but if you are
happy in an academic environment "there are many intelligent and competent
parents who are capable of doing the course', says James Hawkins.At the
end of the course you will get a certificate to acknowledge your successful
completion of the course if your assignments are of sufficient quality.
The course
fee is in New Zealand dollars NZ$250 which is about US$125.New Zealanders
will have to add GST.
Course tutor
is James Hawkins BA (hons) Psychology MA (Hons) with a background as a
teacher, Teachers College senior lecturer, educational Psychologist.
To
enrol please contact Learning Difficulties Coaliltion, PO Box 6748, Wellington,
New Zealand (no zip code needed) with a cheque, or fax them on +64 43828943
or phone +64 43828944
Each
month the top 10 books on teaching ADD or ADHD students are listed here.
They are the books that others are reading and finding helpful, and we
therefore recommend them to you.This month's top 10 are below and
they can be reviewed, ordered and purchased safely and securely in
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