NCTE (National Centre for Technology in Education) - ICT and Special Needs

ICT and Special Needs - Learning Support

Title	Special Needs and ICT - Learning Support
Duration	20 hours
Pre-requisites	Introductory Course Phase 1 or equivalent experience Ideally, participants will also have completed Introductory Course Phase 2 or have equivalent experience.
Target Audience	Learning Support teachers at both primary and post-primary levels Mainstream teachers who have students with learning difficulties in their class and teachers who have a large number of disadvantaged students in their class may also find this course useful
Contents	The course is intended to provide teachers with information on ICT use in learning support, the confidence to introduce it into their own classes and specific strategies, tools and resources to use in the integration of ICT into the curriculum. Aims to Explore ways in which ICT can be used to support individual students' needs Provide exposure to online resources/software which the teacher can use to remediate those needs Explore the use of ICT to motivate students and enable students and teachers to collaborate