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Getting in touch - Interactive Whiteboards for children with severe and complex needs

Led by Ian Bean (ICT in Practice Award winner for Inclusion and former ICT Coordinator at Priory Woods School), this full day, practical course examines the use of Interactive Whiteboards as a teaching and learning tool for children with severe and complex needs.

Programme

Delegates attending this course will learn how interactive whiteboards CAN be used with ALL pupils from the earliest stages of learning to provide meaningful and motivating access to the curriculum. They will see and make inclusive activities that can be used by a whole class including those using switches or alternative pointing devices.

This course will be of interest to colleagues working directly with learners experiencing severe and complex needs including those with severe Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The course will focus on good classroom practice and as such is appropriate to users of any type of interactive whiteboard including Interactive Plasma Screens, Smart and Promethean boards.

Each delegate will receive a 1GB (min) memory stick preloaded with additional material and resources related to the course content.

10:00 Welcome and Introductions

  • Sharing of expectations of the course.

10:10 Session 1 - Access and Teaching/Support Methods

  • An overview of current IWB technology in schools
  • Group teaching and Inclusive practice
  • What skills will children need?
  • Switch and pointing device users?
  • Activities for everyone to use

11:00 Session 2 - Severe and Complex Needs

  • The experiential child.
  • Taking control - initiating.
  • Observation and recording
  • Making personalised experiential and early control activities
  • Signposting other resources and information

12:30 Lunch

A buffet lunch is provided.

Delegates will have the opportunity to look at other hardware and Inclusive Technology software.

13:30 Session 3 - IWB and Curriculum Access

  • Creating differentiated interactive whiteboard activities around your topic.
  • Which tools to use?
  • Sounds and images.
  • Where to find ready made activities we can use

14:45 Break

15:00 Session 4 - Getting Creative

  • Differentiated activities for composing and recording music.
  • Differentiated Art activities from mark making to Mondrian.
  • Social stories in pictures, sounds and video.

15:45 Plenary

16:00 Close

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