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Making your teaching inclusive

Making your teaching inclusive. Improving Disabled Student Learning Experiences presented to Widening Participation to University Study Through Flexible Delivery 21 October 2005. Making your teaching inclusive Open University Scale - 2003/4. 169,000 students of whom… 10,000 are disabled

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Making your teaching inclusive

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  1. Making your teaching inclusive Improving Disabled Student Learning Experiences presented to Widening Participation to University Study Through Flexible Delivery 21 October 2005

  2. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Scale - 2003/4 • 169,000 students of whom… • 10,000 are disabled • 226,000 registrations (40% online), on one of … • 500 courses, linked to … • 200 qualifications, submitting … • 858,000 assignments, and taking … • 107,000 examinations, and submitting… • 50,000 end of course assessments, supported by ... • 7,700 Associate Lecturers, and with … • 48,000 qualifications awarded that year

  3. Making your teaching inclusiveO U Disabled Student Numbers - 2005 Sight 1139 Fatigue/Pain 4681 Dyslexia 1833 Mental Health 2496 Hearing 809 Mobility/Physical 3425 Speech 377 Manual Skills 2138 Other 2400 Personal care 831

  4. Current web resources

  5. Current web resources

  6. Current web resources

  7. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Previous experience of teaching disabled students?

  8. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Previous experience of teaching disabled students? - 55% had little or no experience

  9. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students?

  10. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students? - just over 1/3rd considered themselves not very knowledgeable

  11. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students?

  12. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students? - only 50% found current training provision fairly useful

  13. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students?

  14. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students? - integration into tutorials

  15. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students? - integration into tutorials -lack of resources to help lecturers support students with mental health difficulties

  16. Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students? - integration into tutorials - lack of resources to help lecturers support students with mental health difficulties -lack of understanding about “reasonable adjustment”

  17. Making your teaching inclusivePurpose • to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to…

  18. Making your teaching inclusivePurpose • to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to… • understand the learning support needs of disabled students

  19. Making your teaching inclusivePurpose • to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to… • understand the learning support needs of disabled students • find out how assistive technology and specialist human support facilitates the teaching and learning of disabled students and how they can be successfully integrated into teaching

  20. Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who…

  21. Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who… • work through the complete resource

  22. Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who… • work through the complete resource • dip in

  23. Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who… • work through the complete resource • dip in • select sections

  24. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context

  25. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness

  26. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness • Identifying a student's needs

  27. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness • Identifying a student's needs • Inclusive teaching

  28. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness • Identifying a student's needs • Inclusive teaching • Staff development • Resources • Glossary

  29. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Part 4

  30. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Understanding and awareness • Statistics and trends • Images of disability • Definitions of disability • Experiences of disability • Language and behaviour • Models of disability

  31. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Identifying a student's needs • Using existing institutional information systems • Encouraging disclosure of a disability • Dealing with disclosure • Disabled Students' Allowances

  32. Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Inclusive teaching • Universal design for learning • Characteristics of inclusive teaching • Inclusive teaching - additional resources • Preparing to teach inclusively • Barriers to learning • How learning outcomes support inclusive teaching • Role of specialist support staff • Learning environments • Private study • E-learning • Assessment

  33. Making your teaching inclusiveAn Integrated Approach to Training/Staff Development • an essential component in the implementation of our training strategy • responding to individual need • immediate availability • selective use of components

  34. Making your teaching inclusiveUse and Users? • how might it be used? • who needs to know about it? • which groups of staff might find the resource useful? • how can you promote its effective use? • how can you feedback on its potential usefulness?

  35. Making your teaching inclusiveContact? Robin Stenham (Development Manager) Disabled Student Services Open University - East Campus Henshaw Building Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel: +44 (0)1908 652649 Fax: 01908 655402 Email: r.h.stenham@open.ac.uk

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