Slides used in Comenius Study visit in Porvoo April 2014. Conducted by Pasi Siltakorpi and Annika Ruohonen. This was Pasi´s part . pasi.siltakorpi[at]porvoo.fi

1. Special needs education
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2. Typical types of special needs in our
school
• Specific )Learning difficulties ; language,math
• Dysfasia( specific language disorder)
• Autism ( mild)
• ADHD
• Asperger syndrome
• Mutism
• Slow learners
• School fobia
• Emotional disorders
• Mental retardation
• Hearing impearments
• Behavior problems
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3. GENERAL SUPPORT/INTENSIFIED
SUPPORT/ SPECIAL SUPPORT
• The first alternative for providing special needs education is in
mainstream classes.
•
General support
• Flexible teaching practises, groups
• Remedial teaching
• Classroom assistants
• Adjusted curriculum(syllabus)
• IEP (Individualised education plan)
• Multiprofessional team(teacher,nurse,psychologist, social worker
etc.)
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4. Intesinfied support
• First pedagogigal assesment
• Multiprofessional
team(teacher,nurse,psychologist, social
worker) School welfare team
• Part time special needs education (clinic)
• Other support same as in general support
• IEP (adjusted curriculum(syllabus) in some
subjects,assessment,support needed ,parents)
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5. Special support
• If other support is not enough
• Special classes (max 10 students)
• Special classroom teacher
• Other support as in previous stages
• IEP
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6. WILMA
• WILMA
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7. Why use ICT in learning
• Motivating
• Fun
• Rwarding
• Part of students life
• 24/7
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8. Games and plays
• Free math games e.g
sheppardsoftware.com
more difficult ones
English
British councils good English site
Excersices made by teachers here
Geography
Eu games
countries
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9. Simulations
• kovat kertoimet
• How law is prosessed game
• Nature disasters game
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10. Fun/ movies/ cartoons
• Voki let´s try. Headphones!
• Dvolver ”movie” maker. Try
• Wittycomics
• Pixton
• storyboardthat
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11. Especially for special needs
• Ekapeli
• Several site for language disorders (Finnish)
and imigrants
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12. Etwinning projects
• rice pasties
• Mämmi
• what makes me fin
• granny gifts
• Timeglider
• ETWINNING
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13. Working together
• Padlet
• wikispaces
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14. codeing
• Kodu
• Scratch
• hour of code
• Sploder
• Gamestarmechanic
• sploder
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15. • Some (maybe) useful applications that I´v
collected
• Thank you / Kiitos !
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