Discover how developing strong Motor Skills and sensory integration can benefit your students’ ability to learn.
Course Overview:
Discover how developing strong Motor Skills and sensory integration can benefit your students’ ability to learn. Reflect on your teaching environment and create a plan to implement fine motor activities and a balanced sensory diet. You will conduct your own research and leave this course with practical ideas that are ready to be implemented in your classroom.
Course Objectives:
This course will give student opportunity to:
• Understand the development of motor skills.
• Explore activities that can be integrated into your classroom.
• Discover how we use our senses to understand the world around us.
• Reflect on the amount of sensory integration used in your current teaching.
• Explore different ways that elementary teachers can provide the appropriate tools for learning through our senses.
• Develop a plan for implementing sensory integration into our daily lessons and activities.
Course Relation to CCS or other Professional Standards
Standard I: Using Knowledge of Child Development to Understand the Whole Child
Standard II: Partnering with Families and Communities
Standard VI: Managing the Environment for Development and Learning
Standard VII: Planning for Development and Learning
Standard VIII: Implementing Instruction for Development and Learning
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