CSIE is delighted to announce this FREE online webinar, which will take place on Tuesday 30 March, 3-5 pm.
The webinar will focus on the contribution which Learning Support Assistants, or Teaching Assistants, make to the learning & development of disabled children in schools. It will present the outcomes of an international project which created FREE online resources available for self-study.
The webinar will explore a rationale for inclusive education, in the context of national and international laws which call for inclusion, and offer useful information and practical advice relevant to the following areas: Interaction & Communication; Cognition & Learning; Physical & Sensory Impairment; and Emotions & Behaviour.
It will also present information from the evaluation of these resources, which have been rated very highly by assistants from five different countries, by teachers who work with these assistants, and by parents of children who are supported by these assistants.
This event is for Learning Support Assistants, or Teaching Assistants, who are interested in more effective ways of supporting disabled children and young people in schools. It will also be of interest to parents of disabled children, and to teachers, senior leaders, SENCos and other educators involved in planning for disabled children’s learning and development in schools.
This webinar is offered as part of the collaborative project IMAS II (IMproving ASsistance in inclusive educational settings II), co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union (2018-1-AT01-KA202-039302). CSIE has been among the nine partners from five countries in this project, and in the original IMAS project before it.
The IMAS II project was launched in October 2018 at the University of Graz, Austria, home of the lead partner, and concludes at the end of March 2021. The project has sought to support and strengthen the development of learning and support assistants’ competencies for inclusive practice, in ways which are consistent with the requirements of Article 24 (Education) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
project number:2018-1-AT01-KA202-039302
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