This independent study course is designed to offer practical methods teachers can use in their classrooms to ensure the most student success.
Learning disabilities can vary with each student, so this course offers many solutions for teachers to use for learners with learning disabilities. This course will give teachers step-by-step instruction on how to teach students with disabilities such as cognitive or memory deficits, social-emotional problems, and dyslexia. Teachers will walk away from the course with an invaluable set of tools to help them create a positive classroom environment and promote a sense of belonging for all learners.
In this course you will:
- Create and develop your own teaching strategies and provide examples to implement in the classroom
- Define what a disability is and identify the various types of disabilities seen in the classroom
- Develop ways to nurture IEP learning in the classroom
- Reflect on current IEP strategies used in the classroom and understand how to modify those strategies to create stronger learning environments
- Develop techniques to teach to all learning modalities
- Learn how to establish interactive and safe environments for various learning abilities
- Acquire skills beneficial not only for your students, but for yourself as an educator as well
- Use strategies to help students develop independent study habits for future application
EROM –
“Thank you for offering classes such as these! They provide me with numerous opportunities to explore current research and practices that enable me to be effective in my classroom. The convenience of working at my own pace and gathering further insight from my colleagues leads to beneficial collaboration and improves our school as a whole.” -JoAnn T., NE
EROM –
“I enjoyed this course. The information was a great starting point to what I needed to work with my student body. Compared to a special education course I have taken before, this course was packed with relevant information, much more of a ‘how to’ course. I can say that this course will definitely benefit me, I have been forced look at some of the issues I have at work and with my own teaching abilities and how to fix them. Also, I have learned what I am doing right and why it works.” -Shielah O., KS
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“I really enjoyed this course. It made me stop to evaluate my teaching practices by reviewing the things that I am doing correctly and to give me new ideas. I have already had a lot of success with some of the new strategies that I have implemented in my room. Three of us from our school took this course together. Once a week we would meet and go over a couple of chapters and discuss them and then share our assignments and give feedback to one another. The conversation was wonderful! This course is different as you can go at your own pace and have the sharing component with others. This course will strengthen my ability as an educator and make me more reflective of my practices. I look forward to taking more from you!” -Lori R., IA
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“I thought this class did an excellent job of providing simple strategies that can be used immediately with students with disabilities in my classroom. It also did a nice job of laying out the special education process for getting students tested. This course is right inline with other courses that I have taken but with more real life concepts to put into place. This course will benefit me because I will be a more effective teacher for my students with disabilities, as this gave me more ideas to help me help them be more successful.” -Tiffany H., MN
EROM –
“I’ve had the privilege of taking courses through Educational Resources this summer. The information I learned was new to me and incredibly helpful for the classroom. I have 10 IEP students this year, several of them being autistic. I’ve already applied strategies I learned from this course within the first 7 days of school. Thank you for offering outstanding courses for teachers!” -Robin A., MO
EROM –
“I truly enjoyed taking this course. I was able to work on these assignments at my own pace. I feel that these courses gave me a different perspective in teaching and education overall. I hope to implement what I learned and continue to grow as an educator.” -Sarah S., CA
EROM –
“This class was very beneficial. It provided me with a lot of resources for teaching students with learning disabilities. I will use a lot of these accommodations in my classroom.” -Madalyn S., IA
EROM –
“Teaching the way they learn is a great course for any teacher looking for some new ideas or simply to remind themselves of why we do what we do. The expectations were clear and I appreciated the choices that were offered for each lesson. I would recommend this class to anyone that I currently teach with.”–Jenny R., IA
BAGT –
“Great class! I love being able to take these because it’s something I can actually fit into my daily schedule.” –Elizabeth F., OH
BAGT –
“This class really opened up my eyes to what I do with my students with LD and what I need to be doing to help them be successful.” –Alyssa B., OH