Certificate in Facilitated Learning (Systematic Instruction)

This accredited Level 6 course will help you develop and implement an individual training plan for a person with disability using the Systematic Instruction teaching strategy.

During the 10-week course you will work in partnership with a service user to support them to develop a skill that relates to their own person centred plan.

After successfully completing the course, here are just some of he things you should be able to:

• Explain the key approaches to learning and discuss what Systematic Instruction and how it relates to other learning theories
• Apply Brown’s Top Down model for developing a learning programme to identify a meaningful task/skill for the focus person to acquire
• Design a task analysis and a data collection/record sheet
• State the criterion or standard to which the task is to be learnt
• Complete a baseline recording for the target task
• Identify any relevant individual learner characteristics
• Devise a skill maintenance and generalisation plan
• Evaluate your training experience for this assessment

Course Content

Unit 1: Meaningful Training

To apply you must:

• Have successfully completed a Leaving Certificate/QQI/FETAC Level 5 Certificate or
  be 23 years of age when you apply
• be employed or volunteering in a service for people with disabilities for at least 10 hours a week.
• International Applicants must provide appropriate documentary evidence of proficiency in English (i.e. IELTS 6.