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Penny Harris
Postgraduate Certificate in Dyslexia and Literacy
Validated by the University of York
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Overview
• Content• Support• Assignments• Examination
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Course Content
• Strands for psychology and practical assessment and teaching.
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Theory
• Lectures – deliver content• Examples - illustrate• Activities – practice• Forums – discuss, debate, support• Quizzes – self check• Reading – deepen understanding
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Practice
• Supervised assessment and teaching of learners in 1:1 situation
• Following a structured programme• With multisensory teaching methods• Addressing specific needs of the learner
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Support
• Administrative support• Education Tutor• Psychology Tutor• Cluster• Lead Tutor• Programme Director
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Administrative Support
• Moodle support• Technical support• Student administrator• Exams officer• Board of Studies• Board of Examiners
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Education Tutor
• Students grouped together in clusters with one or more Psychology tutor and several Education tutors
• ET – experienced, practising specialist• Part-time for Dyslexia Action – limited • Formative feedback on practical teaching and
assessment• Moderating forums• Examines summative assignments
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Psychology Tutor
• Students grouped together with psychology tutor• Experienced, practising psychologist –
educational or experimental• Part-time for Dyslexia Action - limited• Formative feedback on assessment reporting
and critical evaluation of theory and practice.• Moderating forums• Examines summative assignments.
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Learning community
• Forums
• Clusters
• Tutor teams
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Your Assignments
• Weekly lesson planning, production of teaching materials and self-reflective evaluation of lesson.
• Development and production of specific teaching materials (PTMA) to be included in your lessons and later for peer evaluation.
• Maintain teaching diaries and journals of work for moderation
• Assessment administration, scoring, reporting and planning an intervention
• Critical evaluation of theory and practice
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Formative
• Tasks to help you to develop skills for specialist literacy teaching.
• Assessment administration and scoring• Report writing• Lesson planning• Reflective self-evaluation• Creating teaching materials
All formative assignments are compulsory
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Examined
• Structure of Language – Open Book Test• Essay linking theory and practice• Case Study
– Observed assessment– Assessment report– Teaching intervention– Reflective evaluation
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Teaching Deadlines
• Teaching L1: you will be teaching your first learner for a minimum of 10 hours
• Teaching L2: assessment followed by a teaching intervention.
• Timetabling according to your school terms – UK, non-UK
• Deadlines are fixed!
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Extensions
• Formative assignments have submission dates.• Examined assignments – Deadlines• Extension requests may be made only in
unforeseen circumstances. Will require evidence with application.
• Non-submission = failure of course.
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Successful completion
• New teaching skills
• New assessment skills
• New knowledge and understanding
• Dyslexia Specialist Teacher
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