This course focuses on pupils with special needs and learning difficulties, and how to support such people in ordinary clasroom settings.
The students understand types and varieties of developmental disorders, and how teachers, schools, and peer students can support people with such difficulties.
developmental disorders, inclusive education
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Intensive lecture sessions meet on weekends. Dates TBA. Consult .hum webpages and the bulletin board.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | On the individualized and inclusive education systems. | Understand the individualized and inclusive education systems. |
Class 2 | Supporting Learning disability and ADHD. | Understand the support systems for those with Learning disabilities and ADHD. |
Class 3 | Understanding the autism spectrum. | Understanding the autism spectrum. |
Class 4 | Meeting special needs for Learning Disabilities and Mental Retardations in normal classrooms | Understand ways to support pupils with needs in the "normal" classrooms |
Class 5 | Supporting pupils with physical challenges | Understand pupils with physical challenges |
Class 6 | Supporting hardships such as poverty, learning in the second language, and/or LGBT | Understand hardships such as poverty, learning in the second language, and/or LGBT |
Class 7 | Diversified ecucation | Understand educational practices in a diversified environment |
Class 8 | Constructing support systems in the educational setting | Understand how supportive systems may be materialized in the classroom. |
In-class hanouts
None in English
By exams and written assignments.
Desirably students have earned credits of LAT.A109, LAT.A104, LAT.A105. Concurrent registration is acceptable.
yamagishi.k.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp