Our Learning Modules provide educators, school leaders, and other professionals with research-informed insights, practical strategies, and tools to support students with learning disabilities (LDs) and co-occurring conditions. Covering a wide range of topics—from teaching techniques and literacy development to school-family collaboration and student advocacy—these modules are designed to deepen understanding and enhance instructional practices.
Each module includes self-assessments, in-depth content, and practical strategies to apply directly in educational settings. Click into the Learning Modules to explore effective approaches that empower students and strengthen your teaching practice.
This module aims to provide an introduction to the tiered model of support in reading, enabling a deeper understanding of effective teaching strategies for struggling readers and students with learning disabilities and ADHD.
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This module is intended to provide an introductory overview of the concepts of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Differentiated instruction (DI). These two educational approaches can provide tremendous support to students diagnosed with learning disabilities (LDs), as well as their typically developing peers.
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This module is intended to provide an introductory overview of the components of reading instruction in the primary years, and how to tailor instruction to meet the needs of struggling readers, some of whom may have learning disabilities (LDs). The module will present the various ways that LDs can affect reading development,…
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This module presents the ways in which educators and other school board professionals can work with students and families to help students with LDs to succeed in their education and will provide guidance, strategies, and tools to help build strong school-family relationships.
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This module is intended to provide educators across all subjects with the necessary teaching tools to support their students with LDs to gain the skills and knowledge required for success in secondary school, and beyond.
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This module is intended to provide an introduction to advocacy for students with learning disabilities (LDs). This module will present the ways in which advocacy can help students with LDs to succeed in their education and will provide guidance, strategies and tools for educators to help support the development of self-advocacy skills…
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This online module is intended to provide an introduction to literacy, numeracy, executive function, and social and emotional development as well as an introductory overview of Ministry documents such as PPM8 and Learning for All, as they relate to students with learning disabilities.
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This online module is intended to provide an overview of the Concrete – Representational – Abstract (CRA) instructional strategy for mathematics, as well as providing practical classroom applications of this strategy to help you bring CRA to life in your own math teaching practice.
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This module is intended to provide a thorough understanding of instructional and assistive technologies, as well as the ways in which they can be integrated into classroom practice to benefit not only students with learning disabilities, but all students. The content of this module was developed for educators working at the junior,…
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This module is intended to provide an in-depth exploration of executive functions, as they relate to students with learning disabilities (LDs) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), at all grade levels. The eight pillars of executive functioning will be described, along with indicators and strategies for the classroom. You will gain familiarity…
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This module is intended to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between learning disabilities (LDs) and mental health. Mental health will be described on a continuum, and we will explore some of the challenges that students with LDs may experience at various points along the continuum, as well as strategies that…
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