Course info

This course focuses on evidence-based inclusive teaching and learning strategies for special populations in different school and classroom settings. Students will develop leading edge and practically useful knowledge relevant for further developing effective teaching and support for students of determination, with gifts and talents, students facing different health circumstances and challenges, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Students will develop up-to-date research-informed teaching and assessment skills useful for identifying and building a routine practice of effective strategies to support inclusive student participation and high levels of engagement in learning activities. Students will develop knowledge and skills for practicing research- informed pedagogic strategies for enhancing student learning processes, engagement and outcomes with a particular focus on peer-assisted learning (e.g., dialogic talk, reciprocal teaching, peer tutoring, assessment and feedback, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and differentiated teaching and learning). This course will introduce the principles of effective curriculum design and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) development relevant for students from diverse backgrounds and with different characteristics, as well as tools for critically reflecting on and enquiring into practice. Implications of using pedagogic strategies for the classroom roles and relationships among students and between students and teacher will be considered, along with the consequences of relationships for student learning and achievement.