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Year One
Focus: Classroom activities and adjustments for children with learning challenges and different learning styles. Target audience is class teachers and specialist subject teachers, including those who wish to become remedial teachers.
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Year Two
Focus: Extra Lesson. Drawing, movement and painting exercises to help children learn and adjust to school life. Target audience is specialists and classroom teachers. You will be assigned a mentor. |
Year Three
Focus: Stages and phases of child development. Therapeutic (curative) education, including the therapeutic arts. Target audience is those who wish to deepen their therapeutic understanding of the child and special needs interventions, with an emphasis on medical models. Your mentor will make an on-site visit to observe you in action. |
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Topics:
- observation of the child and child description
- developmental stages
- simple assessments
- the pedagogical story
- classroom movement for whole body integration
- classroom adjustments for sensory processing
- working with auditory and visual learners
- organizing individual activities in a classroom setting
- group work with child study
- Care Group work
- introduction to Extra Lesson
- academic work (mathematics and literacy for children with reading hindrances)
- learning styles
- overview of constitutional types
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Topics:
- constitutional and structural differences
- imprinting processes
- working with archetypical movements
- formation of the body
- the four supersensible bodies
- history of Extra Lesson
- inner movements and their physical correlations
- Extra Lesson assessment and lesson plan development
- core and supplementary exercises
- early movement pattern and reflex assessment
- mainstream supportive therapies and movement approaches
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Topics:
- overview of the senses with emphasis on the lower senses
- sensory integration and deepening of work with reflexes and immature movement patterns
- child development
- stages of growth
- working with parents
- nutrition
- illnesses: asthma, allergies, and contact disturbances such as autism
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