ENROL NOWThis course is designed to help teachers and school leaders understand neurodiversity and common neurodivergences present in the classroom. It will explore what educators need to know and understand about neurodiversity as well as explore strategies and approaches at the school, classroom, and individual student level that effectively support neurodivergent students at secondary school (ages 12 to 18). Knowledge building sections throughout the course will also support educators to build their understanding of specific conditions, including co-occurrence. Throughout the course, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their current practice, evaluating the inclusivity and accessibility of their classrooms and settings, and plan how they might modify their practice to support all students’ learning.
The aims of the course are to:
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What you’ll learn
The course is structured into eight parts, with seven additional knowledge-building sections designed to develop your understanding of different forms of neurodivergence. You can work through the course at your own pace.
PART 1
Understanding neurodiversity introduces the concept of neurodiversity and what neurodiversity can mean in the classroom. It explores the implications of the neurodiversity paradigm for educational settings.
PART 2
Working in partnership with others explores the importance of building effective relationships with students and their families and whānau, and details the many benefits of working closely with other teachers, leaders, and teacher aides or learning support staff within the school, as well as with external experts and specialists.
PART 3
Support strategies and their underpinning principles focuses on how to build an effective school-wide approach to supporting neurodivergent students, and explores key ideas and principles for designing support based on evidence-informed and life experience-based approaches to neurodiversity. Case studies of three schools enable you to see what these principles can look like in different contexts.
PART 4
Universal Design for Learning explores this approach to designing teaching and learning that is recommended and endorsed by neurodiversity advocates and researchers.
PART 5
Designing environments and routines examines how considering environments from a sensory point of view and developing consistent routines can provide important support for neurodivergent students at school.
PART 6
Executive function explores the importance of executive functioning and how you can enable students to succeed by explicitly teaching and supporting these skills. It also provides guidance on the importance of explicit teaching of both academic content and social skills.
PART 7
Understanding dysregulation and responding to challenging events examines how you can plan for and effectively respond to challenging scenarios in the classroom. It explains emotion dysregulation and what can cause it, explores how you can proactively support students to build their emotion knowledge and emotional regulation skills, and offers guidance on noticing and ameliorating the factors that can trigger episodes of dysregulation in students.
PART 8
Teacher wellbeing reminds you of the valuable and vital role you play in supporting neurodivergent students, and supports you to ensure that you maintain your own wellbeing.
Knowledge building
Knowledge building sections throughout the course are designed to develop your understanding about the most common forms of neurodivergence and how they can impact students, and to help you develop a suite of practical strategies and approaches that can support students in school environments. The topics covered include autism, sensory processing differences, ADHD, executive functioning, speech and language differences (including developmental language disorder), developmental coordination disorder (DCD), dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, and the mental health challenges that many neurodivergent students experience.
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Neurodiversity in Secondary Schools
Enrolment instructions
1. Select your enrolment requirements below carefully, especially if you are enrolling a group.
2. You can choose to pay via invoice or by credit card.
3. Once enrolled, you’ll find the course on your Account page. You will also receive an email welcoming you to the course.
4. While this course is largely the same as the primary school version, there are some different interviews and strategies. If you would like to take both courses, please enrol in one and then email us to request access to the other one.
Group enrolments
Enrolling as a group offers you great savings, and enables teachers to share their learning journeys and centres to collectively make changes in their practice based on their learning. Each teacher receives their own log in, linked to their email address, and can complete the course in their own time, on their own computer or tablet.
Pricing
- 1 teacher: NZ$110.00
- 2-10 teachers: SAVE 15% (NZ$93.50pp)
- 11-25 teachers: SAVE 20% (NZ$88.00pp)
- 26+ teachers: SAVE 25% (NZ$82.50pp)
- Please note: Prices are subject to 15% GST (local sales tax). Discounts only apply to group enrolments made in one transaction, and cannot be applied retrospectively if your group size increases.
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