Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Coursework Only Reassessment will be similar in type to the set assessment. |
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Description This module is designed to equip student teachers with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to be effectively inclusive teachers of all students they will encounter in post primary schools. Human Diversity will be explored and considered in terms of the implications for teaching and learning in all subject areas and aspects of school life. Student Teachers will have the opportunity to develop personal understanding of inclusivity and what that means in practical terms for them and for their pupils. Policy, procedures and responsibilities for inclusive education will be part of the learning. Case examples representing a full range of learner diversity (e.g. ability/disability, behaviour, ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, sexuality and race) will be used each week to illustrate and scaffold the learning. Student teachers will each develop their own portfolio of inclusive knowledge and practice that is responsive to the learner diversity they encounter in their placement schools. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Express their own understanding of what it means to be an inclusive teacher in their subject areas. 2. Explain how to be an inclusive teacher of all pupils using examples from their own teaching and school experiences. 3. Demonstrate knowledge of the policy documents and messages that underpin inclusive education and each teacher’s role therein. 4. Present personally professional reflections on the implications of assigned material for providing education that is inclusive. 5. Document their development as inclusive educators and identify the sources of their learning to date. 6. Critically appraise responses to learner diversity in schools using research, historical developments and examples to support their ideas. 7. Illustrate what it means to value learner diversity in classrooms drawing on others' perspectives, on theorisations and on experiences. 8. Collaborate with colleagues to devise and present personalised and inclusive teaching responses to learner diversity. 9. Use and evaluate Universal Design for Learning and for Assessment. 10. Select, implement and present a thorough inclusive education response to particular issues, contexts or learners. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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