Name: Addressing neurodiversity in the language arts classroom
Start: 2025-02-28T11:40:00-0700
End: 2025-02-28T12:40:00-0700

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Friday February 28, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST

Westin - Consulate Room

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 →

Friday February 28, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
Westin - Consulate Room

English Language Arts, Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism

Company English
format classroom smartboard - no Chromebooks
Room Details Room 303 (Centre High , classroom smartboard - no Chromebooks Max capacity for 32 people)
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GETCA 2025

David Lewkowich

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