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How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?

Students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges. This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.

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How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?

As an educator, you know how important it is to challenge your students assumptions.

But sometimes you have to challenge your own, particularly when it comes to developing accommodations for learner differences to make your courses more inclusive.

In How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?, the program presenter challenges you to reconsider how you set up and evaluate student engagement.

This program is also part of the Universal Design 4-pack

Benefits

Your approach may unintentionally create barriers to learning for students dealing with a disability.

College and university faculty ask students to engage in many ways, including:

  • Intellectually
  • Verbally
  • Physically
  • Socially
  • Emotionally

But students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges.

This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.

The presenter shows you how to evaluate course activities based on:

  • The learning goals the activity is designed to achieve
  • Your reasons for selecting a particular activity
  • Student takeaways from the activity
  • The assumptions you’re making about what students can do

Learning Goals

This concise course design focused program will take you from comprehension to evaluation. After viewing, you’ll be able to:

  • Identify and appraise your assumptions about how students should engage in a course
  • Formulate appropriate ways to discuss accommodations with a student who has disabilities
  • Demonstrate practical techniques to remove barriers to learning

Topics Covered

Designed to help you give all your students an equitable opportunity to engage with course activities, How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive? shows you how to think about your course in a more inclusive way.

You’ll see this process applied in common classroom situations and learn practical tips to help you revise modes of engagement in light of learner differences. You’ll explore effective ways to discuss course requirements with students who may need accommodations.

A list of dos and don’ts and recommended resources helps you implement what you learn with your next class.

No matter what sort of institution you teach in – public, private, two-year, four-year, online, or brick and mortar— providing equitable opportunity for all your students should be a priority.

Does your course include any of the following common practices, which could still stymie a student dealing with a disability?

  • Small-group discussions
  • Lab work
  • Interviews
  • Q&A and feedback sessions
  • Developing charts or diagrams

If you use any of these elements, How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive? can show you proven methodologies to make sure your course is accessible to all your students.

Audience

With its conceptual and practical approach, this session is perfect for new instructors who may not have much experience in developing accommodations and alternative modes of engagement to remove barriers to learning.

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By enhancing your awareness of how learner differences shape participation in course activities, you’ll learn how to select appropriate modes of engagement. Order now.

Product Code: PM13MA

Campus Access License

With the purchase of the optional Campus Access License, registrants are granted a license to download the program contents to a password-protected network, server, or website for additional staff use. You will receive information on downloading the contents of the program within 3-5 business days after payment has been received by Magna.

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If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, you may cancel the order within 30 days of purchase and receive a full refund.

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