CATERING FOR DIVERSITY

How it affects our teaching

What is catering for diversity?

A characteristic of the system:We are all supposed to be teaching our

students according to their specific needs, personal characteristics, capacities...

Students with Specific Needs of Educational Support (NEAE).

Reference to law

The curricula. DECRETO 104/2010, de 29 de julio, por el que se regula la atención a

la diversidad del alumnado en el ámbito de la enseñanza no universitaria de Canarias.

ORDEN de 13 de diciembre de 2010, por la que se regula la atención al alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo en la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias.

RESOLUCION Dirección General de Ordenación, Innovación y Promoción Educativa.- Resolución de 9 de febrero de 2011, por la que se dictan instrucciones sobre los procedimientos y los plazos para la atención educativa del alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo en los centros escolares de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias.

In general terms

Whenever we speak about diversity, we refer back to department and the school Plan to Cater for Diversity

What we are all trying to do with Specific Needs Of Educational Support Students is making sure that they attain the Stage Objectives and the Key Competences

Specific Needs Of Educational Support Students

Special Needs Students:Challenged: mentally/ motorically/ visually/

hearingPervasive Developmental Disorder

Social interactionCommunicationRepetitive behaviour

Severe Behaviour Disorders

Specific Needs Of Educational Support Students

Specific Learning DisabilitiesBasic cognitive processes

Atention Deficit DisorderSpecial Personal Circumstances or from

Academic BackgroundLate Entries to the Education System Gifted students

Specific Needs Of Educational Support Students

MeasuresOrdinaryExtraordinaryExceptional

AdaptationsAACAC

Specific Needs Of Educational Support Students

AC NEE, DEA, TDAH, ECOPHE (Primary) Two or more course below the level Modify Objectives, contents, methodology,

assessment criteria Can omit certain contents = don’t affect the

objectives nor Key Competences Assessment: the information should go in their

Informe Using the same marking scheme as the rest of the

students but giving them a * that would mean the student didn’t achieve the objectives of the course he or she is currently in.

Specific Needs Of Educational Support Students

Methodological implicationsOposiciones: include a ANEAE RESOLUCION Dirección General de Ordenación, Innovación y Promoción

Educativa.- Resolución de 9 de febrero de 2011, por la que se dictan instrucciones sobre los procedimientos y los plazos para la atención educativa del alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo en los centros escolares de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias

Loads of interesting ideas to include in our plan AND in our teaching practice