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EDU4477 Direct Instruction and Teaching Effectiveness in Special Education
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Credit Points: 15
 
Description:
This unit reviews research into the effective teaching of language, reading, maths and spelling to children with special needs in inclusive and special education settings. Direct Instruction is an approach to teaching based on instructivist principles that makes few assumptions about the learner.  Rather, educators adopting an instructivist approach teach academic, behaviour and social skills according to analysis of the particular task or skill.  This unit also focuses on techniques used to modify the curriculum to cater for the learning needs of children with learning disabilities or learning difficulties in regular schools. A strong emphasis is placed on Direct Instruction techniques and students are given the opportunity to trial instructivist methods with children and adolescents during the practical component of this unit. 

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This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
K14Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Studies)
K15Bachelor of Education (Primary) - Bunbury
K15Bachelor of Education (Primary)
 
 
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes, Graduate Attributes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Student Equity, Diversity and Disability Service website:
http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/support/student-equity

Last Updated - Higher Education: 12/07/2011 VET: 12/07/2011