Syllabus

Course Code: MSE-104    Course Name: Curriculum And Teaching Strategies for Children with Visual Impairment

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Basic Curriculum Areas and Skills
1.1 Curricular skills related to cognitive domain
1.2 Curricular skills related to psychomotor domain
1.3 Curricular skills related to affective domain
1.4 Core curriculum, collateral curriculum, and support curriculum
1.5 Curriculum adaptation: Need and principles
2 Introduction to Expanded Core Curriculum
2.1 From plus curriculum to expanded core curriculum and Introduction and Orientationto Unified English Braille
2.2 Philosophical basis
2.3 Psychological basis
2.4 Sociological basis
2.5 Ethical considerations
3 Steps in Expanded Core Curriculum Development
3.1 Assessment of needs with reference to accessing school curriculum
3.2 Designing a need based curriculum: situational analysis for selection of skills andmethod of teaching
3.3 Developing a collaborative curriculum
3.4 Implementation of the curriculum
3.5 Critical evaluation of the curriculum
4 Strategies for Teaching
4.1 Specific teaching strategies: task analysis, co-activity, pre teaching, selfverbalization,direction giving, generalization, feature enhancement, and use ofkinaesthetic movement
4.2 Teaching reading to students with visual impairment: Reading aloud, peer reading,organic reading, and whole language approach
4.3 Strategies for writing skills: guided and independent writing
4.4 Strategies for teaching math: concrete, experiential, role play, and origami
4.5 Strategies for teaching use of ICT: demonstration, verbal instruction, and peertutoring
5 Approaches to Curriculum Development for VIAD
5.1 Ecological
5.2 Multisensory
5.3 Thematic
5.4 Functional
5.5 Experiential
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