CTE Guest Speaker: Affirming Neurodivergent Learners

[Kristie Stanton]

*SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER* “Affirming Neurodivergent Learners” Workshop
facilitated by guest speaker Leslie Bayer, Associate Director of the Center
for Teaching and Learning at the University of the Pacific:

Date: Thursday, February 16

Time: 12-1:30 p.m. (No registration is required)

Via Zoom: Meeting info is on the CTE Moodle site
https://tinyurl.com/PlattsburghCTE

Academic spaces are increasingly neurodiverse, but ableist practices and
perspectives continue to marginalize neurodivergent learners. In this
interactive session, we will consider how inherited educational
expectations and dominant mindsets around autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and a
range of additional neurological differences create barriers to student
success. We will contrast those views with the asset-based neurodiversity
paradigm and discuss tangible approaches to affirm and support
neurodivergent learners. The teaching strategies we enact with
neurodivergent students in mind will help us better welcome and reach the
wide variety of learners in our classes.
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