Course | Dyscalculia - A Masterclass Course for Teachers

Price

€225

If you're looking to purchase this course, please visit the 'Online self-paced courses' section on ShipCon's website. Choose 'Dyscalculia - A masterclass course for Teachers' from the list.

Facilitator

Jacqui Ashton Smith (Dr) has over 35 years’ experience working in the field of education, autism and SEN. She has presented at numerous conferences world wide, delivered international training and consultancy and post graduate training at a number of universities in the UK, Europe and Japan.

Jacqui is a qualified teacher with post graduate qualifications in SEN and autism. She has a Doctorate in Education and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and has undertaken a range of training in the field of autism and education. Her specialist areas are Educational Leadership, the identification of Girls and Women on the autism spectrum, autism specific quality assurance and autism specific education. She was a lead trainer for the National Autistic Society in the UK and has had her research and papers published in professional journals.

For 25 years Jacqui was Principal then Executive Principal of specialist residential schools for autistic children and for the past 9 years has led the Education Division of a national organisation which runs eight schools as Head of Operations then Director of Education. She led all aspects of strategic development, business development and operations. As the Director of Education Development she has recently been involved in the opening of 4 specialist schools and has gained valuable expertise in this field.

Jacqui is a member of the Autism Education Trust Expert Reference Group and a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of Autism Accreditation, a UK quality assurance system run by the National Autistic Society for autism specific schools and adult services. She is an Associate Consultant for AT-Autism and has provided specialist consultancy in the UK, delivered management and autism training in the middle east and involved in a number of research projects.

Description

This self-paced online masterclass course is designed to provide teachers in mainstream settings the knowledge and skills required to support the educational and social needs of students with dyscalculia in order to achieve their full potential.

Empowering teachers to realise the full potential of students with eyscalculia in an education setting consists of one module. The module is organised by units and topics. Each topic has a specific aim and learning targets and concludes with further reading or resources which the learner may find helpful. This results to a broad and in-depth knowledge & understanding of a series of important aspects and challenges faced by students with dyscalculia in an education setting.

More specifically, the course aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the signs and symptoms of dyscalculia as opposed to other Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs). There are dedicated topics dealing with early identification, screening & diagnosis as well as the ever-important aspect of co-occurring conditions.

Moreover, this masterclass course places emphasis on the social, emotional and behavioural impact of dyscalculia. To this extent, there are dedicated topics dealing with the emotional impact of dyscalculia as well as on various behavioural interventions and specialised support for pupils with dyscalculia.

Finally, the course includes a dedicated unit on the ever-important concept of inclusive education with the aim to increase knowledge and understanding as well as the strategies required to achieve inclusive education. This is achieved by a thorough analysis of inclusive education and SEN provision and the role of a catalytic teacher. The unit concludes with two dedicated topics on specific educational strategies and interventions and the strengths on which pupils with dyscalculia may capitalize upon.

Empowering teachers to realise the full potential of students with dyscalculia in an education setting is an indispensable tool for teachers in mainstream educational settings to acquire the necessary in-depth knowledge to support the educational and social needs of students with dyscalculia.

All presentations in this course are both visual and audio. The course is being developed by highly experienced tutors with vast expertise in the area of Special Educational Needs (SEN).

This course is part of the Special Educational Needs (SEN) online academy of ShipCon.

Main Aims

- Recognize the early signs and symptoms of dyscalculia and co-occurring conditions
- Respond to the impact of dyscalculia on a child’s overall functioning
- Understand the importance of a formal diagnosis
- Develop teacher’s knowledge and understanding the definition and diagnosis of dyscalculia
- Respond effectively and proactively to individual student’s educational needs as informed by diagnosis, IQ tests and other assessments
- Implement the educational strategies required to support students with dyscalculia
- Understanding the social and emotional difficulties of students with dyscalculia
- Implement strategies to help students develop emotional resilience, social understanding and friendship skills which is essential for their wellbeing and academic achievement
- Extend and further develop teacher’s knowledge and understanding of inclusive education and the range of strategies to achieve this

Why This Course?

Developmental dyscalculia is one of a family of Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs).

Dyscalculia is a math learning disorder that makes mathematical reasoning and computation difficult, despite of adequate education, average or greater intelligence, and proper motivation.

It appears as poor memory for numbers, time, sequences, directions, layouts, and visual-spatial information, as well as a confounding inability to manage those things. Dyscalculia is believed to affect 6% to 7% of the population, and up to 26%, when weaker forms of arithmetic difficulties are included.

Care must be taken to consider the entire body of evidence when assessing for dyscalculia and other disorders. This is so due to the fact that co-occurrence of learning difficulties (or disorders) appears to be the rule rather than the exception, and it can often occur with one or more conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or ADHD/ADD. Although this may be as a result of sharing characteristic factors such as working memory, research is ongoing into the likely interaction between any individual’s cognitive, biological, and environmental factors.

What all definitions have in common is:
- a presence of difficulties in mathematics
- the mathematical difficulties are not caused by lack of educational opportunities
- the degree of difficulty is evidenced to be below expectations for the individual’s age.

Empowering teachers to realise the full potential of students with dyscalculia in an education setting aims to provide teachers in mainstream settings the knowledge and skills required to support the educational and social needs of students with dyscalculia in order to achieve their full potential.

Who to Attend?

- Teachers in mainstream education
- SEN teaching assistants
- Educators working in SEN field and want to polish their knowledge and skills
- Coaches/mentors/professionals working on SEN

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