Accommodating All Learners
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Source: Professional Learning Board
Course Review: The Content and Quality Review Board recommends this course. Learn more .
Content Focus: Cross-curricular
Grade Level/Job Focus: All grade levels; teachers, tutors, mentors, paraeducators
Cost: $39 for self-study course; $150 for facilitated course; $250 for graduate course (price includes credit)
Course Description: Participants will be introduced to learning styles for both adults and students and reflect on how instructor learning styles impact teaching styles. They will examine teaching and learning strategies to accommodate all learners and develop a plan to put teaching and learning changes into effect. Incorporated into the course are the Paragon Learning Style Inventory (Schindler), Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain, and C. Tomlinson’s approach to differentiation. The course is appropriate for classroom teachers and paraprofessionals. There is some facilitation, primarily monitoring of a discussion board.
Highlights: This course was highly rated for its alignment with state and national standards, its research-based content, and the quality supplemental resources. Opportunities were provided for reflection and journaling.
Limitations: The course is primarily text based and does not accommodate multiple modalities of learning. Progress through the course is not consistently tracked for the participant. The Review Board felt the course should be more strongly linked to classroom practice. The relatively low level of interactivity does not support collaboration. The Board believed the assessments were not meaningful.
Run Time: 5 clock hours for self-study course; 15 clock hours for facilitated course
Credit Availability: For participants taking graduate level courses, 1 continuing education graduate credit is available from the University of St. Thomas. If you wish to receive continuing education credits for any of the other courses, you should print the course description from the website and submit it to your state and/or local office to get approval for the course. If you need additional information beyond what is listed in the description, contact Linda James at LJames@nea.org.
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