Inclusion and diversity

Inclusive education in disability

A five-day course on including children with disabilities and learning difficulties in mainstream education. It covers individual learning plans, support during lessons and tests, cooperation with parents, attention deficit and the use of cognitive maps, with professional visits to a vocational school, a kindergarten and a primary school.

5 days
Certificate of attendance
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Who it is for

Teachers of primary, secondary and vocational schools
Adult education teachers
Teachers of special educational needs
Teacher trainers, careers officers, educational guides and counsellors
Headteachers, principals and managers of schools and of organisations offering adult or vocational education

What you will learn

Understand the main types of learning disabilities
Understand how they affect pupils
Find solutions to the problems students with learning disorders face
Create individual learning plans and choose the right support

By the end of the course, you will be able to

Recognise learning difficulties and their effect on pupils
Write and apply an individual learning plan with the family
Choose suitable support for lessons and tests
Use cognitive maps to teach and to measure progress

Programme, day by day

Day 1Learning disabilities

Introductory meeting: practical arrangements, timetable and venue
Icebreakers and introduction to the course
Types of learning disabilities and their impact on the student
Creating an individual learning plan

Day 2Individual plans and how we learn

Deciding the content and implementation of the individual learning plan
Learning and knowledge construction; information processing
Knowledge and its representation: the metacognitive dialogue
Professional visit to a vocational school

Day 3Parents and support

Cooperating with parents
Tips for working with pupils with learning disabilities
Support during teaching, learning and tests: types and how to choose
Professional visit to a kindergarten

Day 4Active learning and attention deficit

Meaningful, active and multimodal learning with active maps
Limits of learning: main deficit areas
Attention deficit disorder: characteristics and cognitive style
Progressive learning experiences with cognitive maps
Professional visit to a primary school

Day 5Maps and assessment

Creating maps for different types of students from the same topic
Learning assessment and meta-learning: using maps to measure progress
Final workshop
Certificates ceremony

How the course runs

Predominantly active methodology
Case studies and practical examples
Group work
Activities built around the participants' personal and professional interests

Certificate of Attendance, issued by BragaMob, and Europass Mobility, issued by your school and completed with us. Accommodation, meals, transfers and cultural integration activities can be added to the course: your quote lists each service you choose. Dates on request.

Inclusion and diversity