Name: Addressing neurodiversity in the language arts classroom
Start: 2025-02-27T10:20:00-0700
End: 2025-02-27T11:20:00-0700

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Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST

Centre High - Room 303

Refusing a deficit model, this session will address the particular situation of neurodiverse learners in the secondary ELA classroom, suggesting curricular, environmental, affective, relational, and communicative strategies to engage such students effectively and without discrimination; these shifts in teaching may also be beneficial to all students. This talk will also consider the situation of neurodiversity among teachers.

Speakers

David Lewkowich

Comics and Language Arts, University of Alberta

David Lewkowich is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. He is the author of "The Figure of the Teacher in Comics: A Psychoanalytic Study of Immaterial and Fragmented Education," and works with theories and practices of sound and multimodality... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
Centre High - Room 303 Centre High

English Language Arts, Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism

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GETCA 2025

David Lewkowich

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