making your teaching inclusive improving disabled student learning experiences presented to widening...

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

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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

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Previous experience of teaching disabled students?

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Previous experience of teaching disabled students?

- 55% had little or no experience

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students?

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Knowledge of the learning and teaching support needs of disabled students?

- just over 1/3rd considered themselves not very knowledgeable

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students?

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Training in the skills needed for teaching disabled students?

- only 50% found current training provision fairly useful

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students?

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Open University Survey - 2003

• Difficulties experienced in teaching disabled students?

- integration into tutorials

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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

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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”

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Purpose

• to enable HE lecturers and tutors to teach disabled students effectively and in an inclusive way by helping them to…

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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

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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

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Users

• HE teaching and support staff who…

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Users

• HE teaching and support staff who… work through the complete resource

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Users

• HE teaching and support staff who… work through the complete resource dip in

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Users

• HE teaching and support staff who… work through the complete resource dip in select sections

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Content

• Legal and professional context

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Content

• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness

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Content

• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness• Identifying a student's needs

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Content

• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness• Identifying a student's needs• Inclusive teaching

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Content

• Legal and professional context• Understanding and awareness• Identifying a student's needs• Inclusive teaching• Staff development• Resources• Glossary

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Content

• Legal and professional context Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Part 4

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Content

• Understanding and awareness Statistics and trends Images of disability Definitions of disability Experiences of disability Language and behaviour Models of disability

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Content

• Identifying a student's needs Using existing institutional information systems Encouraging disclosure of a disability Dealing with disclosure Disabled Students' Allowances

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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

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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?

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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