|
A full day in person workshop will review the instructionalpractices of Millie Smith, Active Learning, and Jan Van Dyke to teach children with significant multiple disabilities. This course will offer practical teaching strategies for students for withvisual impairments and multiple disabilities in the sensorimotor stage of development. Throughlectures, videos, discussions, readings and case studies, participants will develop integrateknowledge, which can be applied to their own students. Participants will demonstrate anunderstanding of the unique needs of the students with visual impairments and multipledisabilities at the sensorimotor level of development and how these students can be taughtmeaningful routines which become a foundation for learning new concepts. Two 3 hour virtual in services about Active Learning: Active Learning is an approach based on the work of Dr. Lilli Nielsen, a developmental psychologist and preschool teacher, who worked for over 43 years with childrenand adults with multiple disabilities at the National Institute for Blind and Partially SightedChildren and Youth in Denmark. The approach refers to a total approach for promoting thedevelopment of individuals with severe multiple disabilities. It features an assessment, acurriculum, specifically-designed equipment, and instructional strategies that support learner |
