Creating an Inclusive Classroom

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is designed for teachers of computing in primary and secondary school settings. It will also be useful for special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) and teaching assistants in schools to learn about specific computing approaches to support the young people they work with. If you are a teacher working with students with severe special educational needs or disabilities, you will gain some useful insights during this course, however, you may need to consider more specific adaptations than those described here. You can use the hashtag #RPiLearn to talk about this course on social media.

• An outline of the four broad areas of need, and of the common barriers faced by learners with SEND
• General classroom approaches to include learners with SEND and reduce cognitive load in activities
• Advice on how to create more accessible teaching resources
• Specific approaches to support learners with SEND in programming tasks
• An overview of how to make programming environments more accessible
• The benefits of sensory outputs and using physical computing devices