UCT GSB - Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms
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Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms at Coursera Overview
Duration | 14 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 14 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms at Coursera Course details
- In the education of children with visual impairment, there is at present a global movement away from segregated special schooling, and towards inclusive neighbourhood schools. Inclusion provides an opportunity for everyone, teachers as well as learners, to become more acquainted about life with visual impairment and to overcome some of the barriers of difference which have existed in the past. But if it is to be successful, teachers and others require key skills and insights in order to create classroom environments which fully accommodate the learning needs of children with visual impairment. In this course, you will discover the visually impaired child by recognizing that there are many different eye conditions and that each affects learning and behavior differently. During the course, we will explore the Expanded Core Curriculum, which is a collection of content areas that teachers integrate into the core curriculum to give visually impaired learners access to knowledge that sighted learners gain through observation. You will also learn how to make your classroom, the content, your teaching, and the assessments accessible through curriculum differentiation strategies. By the end of the course you will have the necessary tools to create empowering classrooms where you can teach children with visual impairment in an inclusive, accessible, and attuned space.
- You will be able to purchase a Verified Certificate if you wish to show evidence of your achievements, but this is optional, and you may apply for Financial Aid if you are unable to pay the certificate fee.
Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms at Coursera Curriculum
Discover the visually impaired child
Course introduction
Welcome to Week 1
The Visually Impaired Child in Different Educational Settings
Understanding Visual Impairment
Including Children with Visual Impairment in the Classroom
Understanding Low Vision in the Classroom
How Visual Impairment Affects Learning
Creating an Inclusive Classroom
Conversations About Our Schooling as Visually Impaired Children
Course information
Meet your course instructor
Meet the guest presenters
Course collaborators
Week 1 guest presenters
Podcast: Growing Up with Visual Impairment
Additional resources
Understanding the visually impaired child
Week 1: Discovering the visually impaired child
The Expanded Core Curriculum for the visually impaired child
Welcome to Week 2
Orientation and Mobility and Independent Living Skills
Career Education and Self-determination
Visual Efficiency and Compensatory Academic Skills
Social Interaction Skills
Recreation and Leisure
Braille Reading and Writing Skills
Conversations on Empowering the Visually Impaired Child
Week 2 guest presenters
Introduction to the Expanded Core Curriculum
Additional resources
Applying the Expanded Core Curriculum
Curriculum differentiation and assistive technology
Welcome to Week 3
Exclusion from the Curriculum
Curriculum Differentiation for the Visually Impaired Child: Part 1
Curriculum Differentiation for the Visually Impaired Child: Part 2
Identifying Individual Learning and Teaching Support Material Needs
Providing Learning and Teaching Support Material Creatively
Being Smart About Assistive Technology
Low Technology and Purpose-built Assistive Devices
Assistive Devices for Learners with Low Vision
Common High Technology Devices
Conversations on the Experience of Accessible and Inaccessible Learning Material
Approaches to Making Learning and Teaching Material Accessible: Part 1
Approaches to Making Learning and Teaching Material Accessible: Part 2
Week 3 guest presenters
Additional resources
Understanding curriculum differentiation
Week 3: Curriculum differentiation and assistive technology
Making teaching and learning material accessible
Becoming an empowered teacher
Welcome to Week 4
Understanding Psychosocial Aspects of the Visually Impaired Child
Broadening Networks of Support
Collaborating as an Empowered Teacher
Conversations on Listening to Children with Visual Impairment
Closing Conversations on Key Insights for Teachers
Week 4 guest presenters
Additional resources
Week 4: Creating empowering classrooms
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