Training Academic Teachers in Disability Awareness
1. DARe-Learning
How to train academic teachers
in the field of disability awareness?
Małgorzata Perdeus
Ireneusz Białek
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
4. JU DSS offer
− Organization of courses and exams in adapted
forms;
− Development of educational support strategies;
− English language classes for blind, partially
sighted, deaf and hard of hearing students;
− Counseling in terms of advanced technological
solutions and adaptation;
− Specialist training, e.g. on handling and use
of assistive technologies;
− Co-operation between disability consultants and
academic teachers.
5. Disability Awareness – a New Challenges
for Employees
• DARE 2007-2009
academic teachers & administrative staff
• DARE2 2009-2011
academic teachers & managers of SME
Disability Awareness of Academic Teachers:
Improvements through E-Learning
• DARe-Learning 2011-2013
academic teachers
8. Our learners – who they are?
−University teachers – most of them are
PhD students;
−Professionals in their fields;
−They have no knowledge about disability;
−They want to help students, but usually
they don’t know how;
−They want to keep high level of their
work.
10. In-class workshop
− Enhancing qualifications concerning knowledge
about different barriers in a social life
of disabled people;
− Decreasing of social stereotypes and
prejudices about disabled people;
− Decreasing of fear in a contact with disabled
people;
− Changing the way of thinking about disabled
people: not as objects of charity, but as
subjects of a social life.
11. e-Learning module
– Moodle;
– Basic information
about different kinds
of disabilities;
– Detailed tips for
teachers;
– Games and exercises
concerning methods
of adaptations.
