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Making your teaching inclusive. Improving Disabled Student Learning Experiences presented to Widening Participation to University Study Through Flexible Delivery 21 October 2005. Making your teaching inclusive Open University Scale - 2003/4. 169,000 students of whom… 10,000 are disabled
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Making your teaching inclusive Improving Disabled Student Learning Experiences presented to Widening Participation to University Study Through Flexible Delivery 21 October 2005
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Scale - 2003/4 • 169,000 students of whom… • 10,000 are disabled • 226,000 registrations (40% online), on one of … • 500 courses, linked to … • 200 qualifications, submitting … • 858,000 assignments, and taking … • 107,000 examinations, and submitting… • 50,000 end of course assessments, supported by ... • 7,700 Associate Lecturers, and with … • 48,000 qualifications awarded that year
Making your teaching inclusiveO U Disabled Student Numbers - 2005 Sight 1139 Fatigue/Pain 4681 Dyslexia 1833 Mental Health 2496 Hearing 809 Mobility/Physical 3425 Speech 377 Manual Skills 2138 Other 2400 Personal care 831
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Previous experience of teaching disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Previous experience of teaching disabled students? - 55% had little or no experience
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students? - just over 1/3rd considered themselves not very knowledgeable
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students? - only 50% found current training provision fairly useful
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students? - integration into tutorials
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students? - integration into tutorials -lack of resources to help lecturers support students with mental health difficulties
Making your teaching inclusiveOpen University Survey - 2003 • Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students? - integration into tutorials - lack of resources to help lecturers support students with mental health difficulties -lack of understanding about “reasonable adjustment”
Making your teaching inclusivePurpose • to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to…
Making your teaching inclusivePurpose • to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to… • understand the learning support needs of disabled students
Making your teaching inclusivePurpose • to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to… • understand the learning support needs of disabled students • find out how assistive technology and specialist human support facilitates the teaching and learning of disabled students and how they can be successfully integrated into teaching
Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who…
Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who… • work through the complete resource
Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who… • work through the complete resource • dip in
Making your teaching inclusiveUsers • HE teaching and support staff who… • work through the complete resource • dip in • select sections
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness • Identifying a student's needs
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness • Identifying a student's needs • Inclusive teaching
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Understanding and awareness • Identifying a student's needs • Inclusive teaching • Staff development • Resources • Glossary
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Legal and professional context • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Part 4
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Understanding and awareness • Statistics and trends • Images of disability • Definitions of disability • Experiences of disability • Language and behaviour • Models of disability
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Identifying a student's needs • Using existing institutional information systems • Encouraging disclosure of a disability • Dealing with disclosure • Disabled Students' Allowances
Making your teaching inclusiveContent • Inclusive teaching • Universal design for learning • Characteristics of inclusive teaching • Inclusive teaching - additional resources • Preparing to teach inclusively • Barriers to learning • How learning outcomes support inclusive teaching • Role of specialist support staff • Learning environments • Private study • E-learning • Assessment
Making your teaching inclusiveAn Integrated Approach to Training/Staff Development • an essential component in the implementation of our training strategy • responding to individual need • immediate availability • selective use of components
Making your teaching inclusiveUse and Users? • how might it be used? • who needs to know about it? • which groups of staff might find the resource useful? • how can you promote its effective use? • how can you feedback on its potential usefulness?
Making your teaching inclusiveContact? Robin Stenham (Development Manager) Disabled Student Services Open University - East Campus Henshaw Building Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel: +44 (0)1908 652649 Fax: 01908 655402 Email: r.h.stenham@open.ac.uk