Creating an Inclusive Classroom: Approaches to Supporting Learners with SEND in Computing
CO700 Online course
Explore ways to make your computing lessons more inclusive for learners with special educational needs and disabilities.
Skip to course bookingAs educators, we should aim to provide every young person with the skills and knowledge to become active participants in a digital world.
On this course, you will examine the common barriers faced by students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the computing classroom, and how to address these barriers. You will explore a number of general approaches and specific computing activities that will help to include and engage learners.
You can benefit from facilitation by expert Professional Development Leaders during specific dates for each section of the course:
- 16th Sept – 22nd Sept: week 1
- 23rd Sept – 30th Sept: week 2
- 11th Nov - 17th Nov: week 1
- 18th Nov - 24th Nov: week 2
Don’t worry if you’ve missed the facilitation windows, you can still benefit from the contributions of others.
Who is it for?
This course will support teachers who want to create a more inclusive computing classroom for all of their students. The course is suitable for both primary and secondary teachers delivering computing.
Topics covered
You'll cover the following topics:
- common barriers faced by students with SEND in computing lessons
- strategies to support students overcome barriers
- explore both general and specific computing activities that will help to include and engage learners
How will you learn?
This online, self-paced course can be completed flexibly. You can join and start this course at any time after the advertised date, and keep access for a year after booking. You can learn independently or with colleagues to directly address your individual needs.
This course will be periodically facilitated by expert Professional Development Leaders.
Outcomes
You will be able to:
- Reflect on the common barriers faced by learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the computing classroom
- Develop a toolkit of general teaching approaches to make lessons more inclusive for learners with SEND
- Identify ways to adapt and improve teaching materials to make them more accessible
- Develop effective approaches to teach programming to learners with SEND
- Identify accessible programming environments and physical computing devices that can be used to make lessons more inclusive for learners with SEND
- Model best practice by creating an inclusive computing lesson plan and materials
This course is part of Teach secondary computing
Teach secondary computing
Our nationally recognised qualification will give you confidence to take your computing teaching to the next level and to apply those skills in the classroom.
This course is part of Teach primary computing
Teach primary computing
Our nationally recognised qualification will support you to demonstrate your commitment to developing your own practice and to computing as a school subject.
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