Would you like to improve your support for children with specific needs?
Our training courses for classroom or SEN teachers, awarded by OCR, include the Level 5 Certificate in Teaching Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) such as dyslexia.
The training course is designed to enhance current skills by introducing a greater understanding of the challenges, such as dyslexia, faced by some children. All our training courses embody multisensory teaching techniques which help children with dyslexia or other SpLD's fully participate in lessons and regain their enthusiasm for learning.
Completed over 30 weeks, the time commitment needed is one day a week of guided training at our site in South West London and a further day a week of private study.
Successful completion of our Level 5 course will enable staff to:
- Plan programmes of remediation for children with SpLD
- Analyse Educational Psychologists' reports and other diagnostic tests
- Produce IEPs
- Plan assessments to monitor pupils' progress
The qualification is recognised as credits by Open University and for membership of the British Dyslexia Association leading to ATS (Approved Teacher Status). The course is approved for DCSF funding by the dyslexia-SpLD trust, please see the link below for eligibility.
Unlike many distance learning centres, our courses combine classroom theory taught by experienced professionals with hands-on teaching practice with primary and secondary aged pupils.
The course is run from Thames Christian College, an increasingly well-known independent school and one of only a handful of CReSTeD registered schools with provision up to GCSE. Experience with primary-aged pupils is gained at a nearby state primary school.
Applicants for Level 5 should be classroom or SEN teachers.
The courses run on Tuesdays from September 2010 through to June 2011 from our site in Battersea just 5 minutes from Clapham Junction.
The full cost of the course for 2010/2011 is £2,950.
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