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ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS WITH MULTIPLE LEARNING
DIFFICULTIES AND THE IMPACT UPON TEACHER TRAINING
Ulla Alexandersson Lena Thorsson Sweden
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Overall approach

• Same curriculum as regular school
• Special program with its own syllabus
• Goals to aim for and goals to attain
• Individual target setting in individual
  educational plan
• The syllabuses provide for planning the teaching

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Specific approach

• Observation
• Documentation
• Analysis and reflections
• Changes in the learning situation
• Different tools for assessment

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Individual educational plan

• Increase knowledge and impact on learning
• Increase the possibility of responsibility
• Concrete description of support
• Strengthen participation
• Agreements between teachers, parents and student

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Individual educational plan

• Build on the students strength, abilities and
  interests
• Express positive expectation
• Build on assessments from cognitive and social
  development
• Relate to national goals
• Short- and longterm goals

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TEACHER EDUCATION IN SWEDEN
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THE STRUCTURE
GENERAL FIELD
ORIENTATION
SPECIALISATION
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THE STRUCTURE
GENERAL FIELD
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GENERAL FIELD
60 credit points (1.5 year)

• Central areas
• Learning and teaching
• Socialization, cultural matters and society
• Social assignment, democracy and values of
  society
• Interdisciplinary subject studies
• Various perspectives on human existence and
  conditions for our way of life
• Subject matter and methods from several subjects
  simultanously

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THE STRUCTURE
ORIENTATION
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ORIENTATION
At least 40 credit points

• New/traditional school subjects
• New/traditional academic subjects
• Interdisciplinary/thematic studies
• Fields of competence Social and cognitive
• development of children, young people and
• adults (this includes learning disabilities)

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THE STRUCTURE
SPECIALISATION
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SPECIALISATION
At least 20 credit points

• In-depth studies
• Widening and complementary studies
• New perspectives on earlier studies

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Special Educational Teacher Programme

• Supplementary education, 90 higher education
  credits
• Example of target implement assessments and
  evaluations and to participate in the management
  of the local school activity to meet the needs of
  all pupils
• Six courses
• Example of courses Co-operation and individual
  development, Special needs education as a social
  practice

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Special Teacher Programme

• Supplementary education, 90 higher education
  credits
• Six courses, three together with Special
  educational
• Focus on the students reading -, writing and
  mathematic process
• Assessment and analysis of learning situation
• Develop the principals and forms of pedagogical
  differentiation within the framework of the
  mainstream setting