This comprehensive 2-module course provides participants with the
knowledge and skills to support effective literacy teaching in schools using
structured literacy approaches.   It also builds the ability to identify student needs and raise achievement for at-risk and neurodiverse learners through a range of skills and practical strategies.

Module 1
Know:
● What structured literacy is
● The science of learning and what research tells us
● The key principles that underpin student success
● The elements of structured literacy
● Why the foundations are so important.

Understand:
● Pre-testing, quality teaching and post-testing
● Whole class and small group teaching using the elements.

Do:
● Implementing all the elements successfully
● Use a range of resources to teach the elements of structured literacy effectively, improving outcomes through pre and post-testing.

Module 1  Effective Structured Literacy Practice
Five Zoom sessions - Wednesdays 1 pm – 2.00 pm
Nine Zoom sessions - Wednesdays 1 pm - 2 pm
Practical implementation with four practice support sessions:
- Wednesdays 1 pm – 2.30 pm.
Module  2  At-risk Learners and Neurodiversity

• Week 1 – Understanding and identifying at-risk learners

• Week 2 – 32 characteristics of at-risk learners. The multimodal approach to support Wednesdays 1-2 pm

• Week 3 – Support philosophies/ The 7 excellences/ Dependence to independence/accommodations/strategies/ expectations/ the role of a teacher aide/learning assistant

• Week 4 - Our role in the school/ preparing effectively to maximise student achievement/ The high performing teacher aide

• Week 5 - Dyslexia and Dyspraxia

• Week 6 – ADHD

• Week 7 - Maths and learning difficulties

• Week 8 - The autistic spectrum

• Week 9 - Gifted with learning difficulties

• Week 10 - Vision and learning difficulties

• Week 11 – Addressing underpinning weaknesses through literacy and numeracy

• Week 12 – Gaining credibility for your work, reassessment and next steps, group reflections and best practice.