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Topic: Accessibility: Is your school fit for all?
Educational Context: Post Primary
Target Learners: Transition Year students in a post primary school.
Learning design approach: ABC

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session learners will be able to:

1. Define what an invisible disability is.

2. Articulate what accessibility is and why it should be apart of every school.

3. Analyze the layout of their classroom/hallway and identify 3 items that are not accessible and at least 1 thing that is accessible for the disability assigned to them.

4. List and explain the modification(s) they would apply to their classroom/hallway to make it more accessible.

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Aim: The eductaor will attempt to enter the class room using a wheelchair, demonstrating the doorframe is too narrow. Educator will not explain this to the students, but will inform them that it will be self explanatory further into the lesson.

The students will be presented with 3 words that are scrambled and will be asked to decsramble them. Students will be permitted to work together. Students will be informed these words relate to todays lesson.

The descrambled words will be written on the board when the students have solved them

Resources: Flippity, wheelchair, overhead projecter, access to wifi.

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Aim: to introduce the topic of Accessibility to the students using the 3 words the students descrambled.

Start by firstly asking the students what their current knowledge of Accessible Education is, to discover what the students baseline is. The teacher will then give a 15 minute presentation on Inclusive Education

Resources: Google slides, overhead projector, access to wifi.

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Aim: To have the students participate in a word cloud relating to Accessibility, see which words come up the most and what the students now associate with the word Accessibility.
The class will then be split into small groups to discuss the words that have popped up.

Resources: MentiMeter, overhead projector, access to wifi

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Aim:  Following the words from the word cloud, the class will be asked to explain why those words/phrases come to mind. The class will discuss their thoughts on the information they have learned so far and anything that may need further explanation

The students will be asked why they think the Wheelchair entrance is now relevant to their lesson?

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Aim: To show the students a 10 minute video with an accompanying handout(s) on some types of disability, examples of them and accessibility needs of those disabilities.
The video will be paused in increments so the students can answered questioned prompted by the eductor relating to the video/handout(s)

Resources: Video and info-graphic handout, overhead projector, access to speakers.

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Aim: exploration of props to give the students the opportunity to experience a disability. Students will be asked to perform a simple task with the prop to illustrate the difficulties a disabled student may experience on a day to day basis, further illustrating the importance of accessibility.

Students will first work in groups and take part in a hearing loss simulation via the internet. The students will be asked to write down what they hear.
The students will then all get to experience the physical props brought in and act out activties under the close superverison of the educator.

Resources: Overheadprojector, access to wifi.
Physical Resources: Wheelchair, crutch, vision distortion glasses with cane, tenz machine and headphones connected to speech delay app via Ipad.

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Lenght: 15 minutes

Aim:  Students will be assigned a disability in secret and perform an audit of their envirnoment (classroom/hallway/school) in groups. Students will be given a handout to fill in with their answers, and asked not share with other groups. Students will be asked to identify 3 things that could be made more accessible for their disability and identify at least 1 already existing thing that is accessible about their school.

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Lenght: 15 minutes

Aim: Students will be asked to reveal what disability they were assigned, and be asked to present their findings. The students will be asked to explain the modifications they would make/why.

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Lenght: 10 minutes

Students will be asked to fillout an Evaluation form of their class, which they will have acces to prior to the class.

Educator will thank students for their contributions. Students will be informed that they have now expressed the ability to critique an envionment for accessibility relating issues, students will be encouraged to continue that skill from now on.

The students will be thanked for their time.