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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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