1) Teacher training - Starting a course - welcome, dyslexia - coloured filters, ground rules

Teacher training: Video 1) Example of starting a five-day intensive course, including: welcome, dyslexia explored - coloured filters, ground rules, pre-course assessments collected prior to the event and on the day, health and safety, fire drill, informal written quiz to explore the main aspects of the five-day (teacher training) course (completed in pairs and / or groups) - learners providing their answers.
Training room set up well before the session started. Flip chart displaying all the delegates names and where they are sitting so people can get to know each other from the start.
Interactive PowerPoint displaying the early pages in the resource pack - provided to each delegate along with a text-book. The PowerPoint text will generally slide in (line by line) so that people aren’t bombarded with information and can follow the pages of the paper resource pack ‘bit by bit’, as and when needed.
The British Dyslexia Association, see tinyurl.com/5e...
Coloured slides for reading support, see tinyurl.com/nh...
The interactive PowerPoint allows the tutor to write down unique contributions from all involved, (displayed on the screen), giving ‘agency’ to the learners, early on, (see tinyurl.com/3t... ) hopefully making people feel that this is their course and they are involved, rather than the course being ‘done’ to them. Hopefully creating an ‘adult to adult’ relationship - Transactional Analysis. See tinyurl.com/r7...
Text book available on Amazon at: tinyurl.com/3t...
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