Summer 2023 - EDUC 424 D200

Learning Disabilities: Laboratory (4)

Class Number: 4511

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 8 – Aug 4, 2023: Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Surrey

  • Prerequisites:

    Prerequisite or corequisite: EDUC 422. Students must successfully complete a Criminal Record Check.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Supervised experience in analysis and evaluation of treatment strategies to be used with classroom students having learning disabilities.

COURSE DETAILS:

Education 424 provides SFU students with an opportunity to provide individualized assessment and instruction to children with learning difficulties.  Within this summer laboratory course, SFU students will be responsible for:

  1. conducting an informal assessment of a child’s reading difficulties and
  2. providing intervention for one hour/day – 5 days/week during the tutorial sessions in the second half of the course (First three 'full' weeks of July).

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Lecture sessions will take place during the first half of the course (May and June). Tutoring sessions will occur in the second half of the course (first 3 weeks of July/5 days per week). During tutoring, students must conduct live, one on one tutoring with an assigned child (recruited by the course), 5 days per week during your chosen tutorial hour on campus (Surrey). Lecture sessions will not take place in July.

PARTICIPATION IN ALL TUTORIAL SESSIONS IS MANDATORY except in the case of illness or mandatory COVID-19 precautions as directed by BC health officials.  For each unexcused tutorial day that any SFU student does not attend, the overall grade will be depressed ½ of a letter grade (ie: A will go to a A-, A- will go to a B+ etc.).

During tutoring sessions, all students MUST have a backup plan in place in the event that there is a difficulty with on-time tutorial arrival so that no child is without a tutor at the beginning of each scheduled tutoring session. (A backup plan usually means that another student in the course will take over your teaching until you arrive – please share contact information with your colleagues.)

Grading

  • Participation 15%
  • Midterm 15%
  • Quizzes 10%
  • Assignments 60%

NOTES:

An incomplete will be awarded ONLY under extreme circumstances and will be awarded at the sole discretion of the instructor. No final exam is given in this course.

Grade Scale:

98 - 100 %             A+
94 – 97 %              A
90 – 93 %              A-
87 – 89 %              B+
84 – 86 %              B
80 – 83 %              B
77 – 79 %              C+
74 – 76 %              C
70 – 73 %              C-
60 – 69 %              D (note that + and – grading is not applied under a C)
<59 %                   F

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Cockrum, W.A. & Shanker, J.L. (2013). Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties (Tenth edition). Boston, USA, Pearson (ISBN: 9780137617913)


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the semester are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.