Intuition Tutors Attend a Teaching the Chronically Ill Training Course
Intuition Educational Support Tutors are EdMed Trained
Intuition tutors recently attended an EDMed professional development course for teachers at Ronald McDonald House in Nedlands, and developed a greater understanding of how to teach chronically ill students.
Chronically ill students face a raft of emotional, social, physical and cognitive challenges, and require changes to their education to help them learn as effectively as their peers.
One example is children who have undergone chemotherapy. Chemotherapy creates cognitive issues, like poor working memory. Students who once remembered complex verbal instructions can now find them difficult to understand. Intuition tutors were shown teaching strategies to help remedy this problem - like breaking larger tasks down into smaller ones; employing visual calendars and checklists to remind students what do next; and, even using certain smells to help trigger memory.
By the end of the course, all Intuition tutors had received an EDMed professional development certificate, and agreed that attending the course was worthwhile. Our tutors now have a greater understanding of how to teach the chronically ill, and were also reminded of the many clever ways students can be taught when they face a particular problem or challenge.
Thank you EDMed and Ronald McDonald House in Nedlands for this special opportunity!
