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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/teach-children-with-visual-impairment
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课程名称： 教授视觉障碍儿童：创造赋权课堂 课程概述：在视觉障碍儿童的教育中，目前全球正在朝着不再将其与特殊教育隔离、而是趋向于包容性社区学校的方向发展。包容性教育为教师和学习者提供了更好地了解视觉障碍生活的机会，并克服过去存在的一些差异性障碍。要使教育成功，教师和其他教育工作者需要掌握关键技能和见解，以创建能够充分满足视觉障碍儿童学习需求的课堂环境。本课程将帮助你认识视觉障碍儿童，包括不同的眼疾如何影响学习和行为。在课程中，我们将探讨扩展核心课程（ECC），即教师将整合到核心课程中的一系列内容领域，以便让视觉障碍学习者获得视力正常学习者通过观察所获得的知识。你还将学习如何通过课程差异化策略，使你的课堂、内容、教学和评估变得可及。课程结束后，你将掌握创建赋权课堂所需的工具，以便在包容、可及和适应的空间中教授视觉障碍儿童。 如果需要，你可以购买认证证书以证明你的成就，但这不是强制的，若你无法支付证书费用，也可以申请经济援助。 课程大纲： 第一周：发现视觉障碍儿童 在这一周，你将探索视觉障碍，帮助你发现课堂中的视觉障碍儿童。我们将考虑视觉障碍儿童可能面临的不同教育环境和眼部疾病，以及这些因素如何影响孩子在课堂中的学习和行为。你将开始创造赋权课堂的重要任务，学习如何创建包容性空间。最后，我们邀请了一组视觉障碍专业人士讨论他们的经验。你还可以在讨论论坛分享你的观点，浏览我们提供的进一步资源。本周的评估是一次测验。 第二周：视觉障碍儿童的扩展核心课程 在这一周，我们将详细讨论扩展核心课程（ECC）。这是教师将整合到核心课程中的一系列内容领域，目的是让视觉障碍学习者获得视力正常学习者通过观察获得的附带知识。不同的特邀嘉宾将讨论ECC的各个领域。一个盲文专家将介绍盲文教学所涉及的内容，并提供支持学习盲文的原则。本周的讨论会聚焦于ECC如何赋能视觉障碍学习者。你有机会在讨论论坛上分享你的见解，并利用提供的额外资源进行学习。本周的评估是一个书面练习，你可以选择应用ECC于一个课程。 第三周：课程差异化与辅助技术 在这一周，你将学习为视觉障碍儿童差异化课程的必要性和重要性。这意味着根据班级中不同学习者的能力和学习风格来修改和适应课程。你将学习如何识别适合的学习和教学支持材料、评估调整以及适合每个视觉障碍儿童的辅助技术设备或程序。本周同样将有专家小组分享意见和经验，你可以在讨论论坛和额外资源中进一步交流。最后，本周还提供了对额外内容的深入研究，以便增强学习材料的可及性。 第四周：成为一个赋权的教师 在课程的最后一周，你将在关注视觉障碍儿童的心理社会问题上获得更深的理解，学会尊重、耐心和同情地倾听他们。我们也将描述你可以采取的实际措施，以拓宽支持网络。你将听到一位经验丰富的校长讲述如何通过合作赋权自己和学校。作为最后一周，我们邀请小组成员讨论本周的主题，并对创建包容课堂进行最终反思。课程的最终评估是一次测验，我们将为你提供丰富的资源，支持你成为一个赋权的教师。
Name:Discover the visually impaired child
Description:Welcome to the first week of the course! In this week, we take you on a journey to explore visual impairment and in doing so, help you discover the visually impaired child in your classroom. We consider the different educational settings in which visually impaired children may find themselves as well as different eye conditions and how these circumstances may affect the child’s learning and behaviour in the classroom. You will also start with the important task of creating an empowering classroom by learning how to create an inclusive space. At the end of the week, I have invited a group of visually impaired professionals to discuss some of the issues based on their experience. You will also have the opportunity to share your thoughts in the discussion forum and look through the list of further resources we provide. This week’s assessment is a quiz. May you have a rich and empowering first week.
Name:The Expanded Core Curriculum for the visually impaired child
Description:Welcome to the second week of the course! This week we will deal in some detail with the Expanded Core Curriculum (or ECC). This is a collection of content areas that teachers integrate into the core curriculum to give visually impaired learners access to the incidental knowledge that sighted learners gain through observation. Various guest presenters will discuss the areas of the ECC, bringing you their specialist knowledge. A Braille specialist will introduce what Braille tuition may involve and provide a set of principles to support learners who are being taught Braille. At the end of the week, the panel discussion focuses on the ECCs potential to empower visually impaired learners. You will have an opportunity to share your insights on the discussion forum and add to your learning from the additional resources provided. The assessment this week is a written exercise where you can practice applying the ECC to a lesson of your choice.
Name:Curriculum differentiation and assistive technology
Description:Welcome to the third week of the course! In this week you will learn about the need and importance of differentiating the curriculum for the children with visual impairment. This means modifying and adapting the curriculum according to the different abilities and learning styles of learners within a class. You will also learn about identifying suitable learning and teaching support material, assessment adaptations, and assistive technology devices or programs for each individual child with visual impairment. The week concludes as usual with opinions and experiences from our expert panel, an opportunity to share your thoughts with your peers in the discussion forum, additional resources to explore, and a graded quiz. This week you also have an opportunity to cover additional content on making learning materials accessible for the voluntary honors assignment.
Name:Becoming an empowered teacher
Description:Welcome to the last week on the course! In this week, you will gain further understanding about the importance of tending to psycho-social issues of visually impaired children by listening to them with respect, patience, and compassion. We will also describe practical things you can do to broaden your networks of support. Then you will hear from an experienced school principal about empowering yourself and your school through collaboration s. As it is the last week, we have invited our panellist to discuss this week’s topics as well as offering a final reflection on creating inclusive classrooms. The end of course assessment is a graded quiz, and we will leave you with a rich set of resources to support your endeavour to becoming an empowered teacher.
In the education of children with visual impairment, there is at present a global movement away from segregated special schooling, and towards inclusive neighbourhood schools. Inclusion provides an opportunity for everyone, teachers as well as learners, to become more acquainted about life with visual impairment and to overcome some of the barriers of difference which have existed in the past. But if it is to be successful, teachers and others require key skills and insights in order to create classroom environments which fully accommodate the learning needs of children with visual impairment. In this course, you will discover the visually impaired child by recognizing that there are many different eye conditions and that each affects learning and behavior differently. During the course, we will explore the Expanded Core Curriculum, which is a collection of content areas that teachers integrate into the core curriculum to give visually impaired learners access to knowledge that sighted learners gain through observation. You will also learn how to make your classroom, the content, your teaching, and the assessments accessible through curriculum differentiation strategies. By the end of the course you will have the necessary tools to create empowering classrooms where you can teach children with visual impairment in an inclusive, accessible, and attuned space. You will be able to purchase a Verified Certificate if you wish to show evidence of your achievements, but this is optional, and you may apply for Financial Aid if you are unable to pay the certificate fee.
