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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• 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 inclusive
O 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
Current web resources
Current web resources
Current web resources
Making your teaching inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Previous experience of teaching disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Previous experience of teaching disabled students?
- 55% had little or no experience
Making your teaching inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusive
Open 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 inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students?
- only 50% found current training provision fairly useful
Making your teaching inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students?
Making your teaching inclusive
Open University Survey - 2003
• Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students?
- integration into tutorials
Making your teaching inclusive
Open 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 inclusive
Open 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 inclusive
Purpose
• to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to…
Making your teaching inclusive
Purpose
• 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 inclusive
Purpose
• 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 inclusive
Users
• HE teaching and support staff who…
Making your teaching inclusive
Users
• HE teaching and support staff who… work through the complete resource
Making your teaching inclusive
Users
• HE teaching and support staff who… work through the complete resource dip in
Making your teaching inclusive
Users
• HE teaching and support staff who… work through the complete resource dip in select sections
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Legal and professional context
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness• Identifying a student's needs
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness• Identifying a student's needs• Inclusive teaching
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness• Identifying a student's needs• Inclusive teaching• Staff development• Resources• Glossary
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Legal and professional context Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Part 4
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Understanding and awareness Statistics and trends Images of disability Definitions of disability Experiences of disability Language and behaviour Models of disability
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• Identifying a student's needs Using existing institutional information systems Encouraging disclosure of a disability Dealing with disclosure Disabled Students' Allowances
Making your teaching inclusive
Content
• 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 inclusive
An 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
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Use 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 inclusive
Contact?
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
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