Funded places available for SpLD Training
Post Graduate Certificate in Specific Learning Difficulties (Level M - Masters)
Start date: 25 September 2009 - 40 sessions
Times: 8.30am to 11.45am
Venue: Heath Training and Development Centre, Free School Lane, Halifax. HX1 2PT
Target participants: Teachers
A number of fully funded places are available for the above course, beginning in September of this year.
The course will provide qualified teachers with the Postgraduate Certificate in Specific Learning Difficulties, and can lead to AMBDA (Associate Membership of the British Dyslexia Association).
The course is designed to enable teachers to:
- Appreciate the problems experienced by pupils who have specific learning difficulties;
- Examine the nature and causes of such difficulties and the controversies about the form of special education provision required;
- Further their skills in assessing the specific learning difficulties of individual children;
- Develop strategies to support students in mainstream classes;
- Further their competence in devising appropriate intervention strategies for these students;
- Work with children and young people, individually and in small groups.
The course, tutored by Dr K Kelly, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University will run over 5 terms starting in September 2009.
It will consist of:
- Year 1 : 24 sessions and tutorial, 2 hours assessment and 20 hours of one to one teaching (three units PG Certificate SpLD)
- Year 2 : 16 sessions and tutorials, 2 hours assessment and 10 hours of one to one teaching (two units forty CATs SpLD Certificate AMBDA)
Students will only need to take one further unit (twenty CATs) of their choice e.g. ADHA, Dyscalculia or research methods to gain PG SpLD. For the complete schedule of dates for this course please contact CPD.
For further information on this course, please contact: Trish.lowson@Calderdale.gov.uk or contact Sandy Fitzgerald at the 'No to Failure' project office for a form to complete. Tel: 01344 381563
The 'No to Failure' steering group and founding members of the Dyslexia-SpLD Trust would like to sincerely thank Manchester Metropolitan University for generously subsidising this course in order to enable it to offered to candidates without charge.
