Remedial Teaching Course

Lesson 1 • Common Types of Learning Difficulties

Profiles dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and language-based difficulties. Builds recognition skills essential for later assessment chapters.

Lesson 2 • Risk Factors and Protective Factors

Identifies genetic, environmental, and instructional variables that increase or reduce learning difficulty severity. Frames early intervention as a protective mechanism.

Lesson 3 • Defining Learning Difficulties

Clarifies terminology distinctions among learning difficulties, disabilities, and disorders. Provides the conceptual vocabulary used throughout the course.

Lesson 1 • Informal and Classroom-Based Assessment

Introduces curriculum-based measurement, observation protocols, and error analysis. Equips practitioners with low-cost, ongoing monitoring strategies.

Lesson 2 • Translating Assessment into Intervention Plans

Bridges diagnostic data to actionable instructional goals and priority areas. Ensures assessment findings directly inform the intervention design covered next.

Lesson 3 • Principles of Educational Assessment

Covers validity, reliability, and fairness as core assessment standards. Anchors all subsequent tool selection decisions in sound measurement principles.

Lesson 4 • Screening and Early Identification

Outlines universal screening procedures and decision-making frameworks for early risk detection. Supports timely referral before difficulties become entrenched.

Lesson 1 • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

Explains the three-tier prevention model and decision rules for moving students across tiers. Provides the organisational structure for all intervention planning.

Lesson 2 • Evaluating Intervention Evidence

Teaches practitioners to appraise research quality using effect sizes and study design criteria. Enables informed selection of programmes with strong empirical support.

Lesson 3 • Explicit Instruction Design

Details the I Do–We Do–You Do gradual release model and its components. Practitioners learn to script and deliver lessons with high instructional clarity.

Lesson 1 • Phonological Awareness Instruction

Sequences phonological awareness skills from rhyme to phoneme manipulation. Provides activity structures for building foundational sound awareness.

Lesson 2 • Reading Fluency Development

Introduces repeated reading, partner reading, and performance reading to build automaticity. Connects fluency gains to improved comprehension outcomes.

Lesson 3 • Vocabulary and Word Knowledge

Presents tiered vocabulary instruction and morphological analysis for word learning. Supports comprehension and academic language development in struggling readers.

Lesson 4 • Phonics and Decoding Instruction

Covers systematic phonics scope and sequence, word-reading routines, and decodable text use. Directly applies structured literacy principles from Chapter 3.

Lesson 1 • Computation and Fact Fluency

Covers strategies for building addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fluency. Emphasises strategy-based learning before rote memorisation.

Lesson 2 • Problem-Solving Instruction

Teaches schema-based instruction and self-regulation strategies for word problems. Addresses the language and reasoning demands that challenge students with learning difficulties.

Lesson 3 • Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence

Explains the CRA instructional progression and its application to arithmetic concepts. Provides a lesson design template applicable across all maths intervention topics.

Lesson 4 • Number Sense and Early Numeracy

Addresses foundational number concepts including counting, magnitude, and subitising. Targets the core deficits underlying dyscalculia introduced in Chapter 1.

Lesson 1 • Composition and Text Organisation

Introduces structured writing frameworks and graphic organisers for paragraph and essay writing. Addresses planning, drafting, and revision challenges in students with learning difficulties.

Lesson 2 • Spelling Instruction for Struggling Writers

Applies phonics and morphological knowledge to systematic spelling instruction. Builds on decoding skills from Chapter 4 to reinforce encoding.

Lesson 3 • Handwriting and Fine Motor Skills

Covers letter formation, pencil grip, and paper positioning for legible handwriting. Provides accommodations for students with significant motor difficulties.

Lesson 1 • Fading Intervention and Exit Criteria

Defines criteria for reducing intervention intensity and transitioning students to less restrictive support. Prevents premature exit and supports long-term maintenance of gains.

Lesson 2 • Progress Monitoring and Data Collection

Establishes systematic data collection routines and graphing procedures for tracking student growth. Enables timely instructional adjustments based on trend analysis.

Lesson 3 • Designing Individualised Intervention Plans

Guides construction of intervention plans with measurable goals, timelines, and resource specifications. Integrates assessment findings from Chapter 2 with strategies from Chapters 4–6.

Lesson 4 • Differentiation Within Intervention

Addresses how to modify pacing, scaffolding, and task complexity within an intervention plan. Ensures plans remain responsive to individual learner variability.

Lesson 1 • Culturally Responsive Intervention

Integrates cultural and linguistic background into intervention design and delivery. Ensures equitable access and avoids misidentification of culturally diverse learners.

Lesson 2 • Intervention for Co-Occurring Conditions

Addresses ADHD, anxiety, and language disorders as complicating factors in intervention delivery. Practitioners learn to adapt plans when multiple conditions are present.

Lesson 3 • Scaling Intervention Across a School

Examines implementation science principles for sustaining intervention programmes at the school level. Addresses fidelity monitoring, coaching, and systemic barriers.

Lesson 4 • Technology-Enhanced Intervention

Evaluates digital tools, assistive technology, and software for supplementing intervention. Applies evidence appraisal skills from Chapter 3 to technology selection.