Supporting and Developing Literacy for Deaf Learners using Different Phonic Approaches:

Course evaluation summary

Number of Participants: 27
Number of Respondents: 14

Overall Assessment:

Will you do anything differently as a result of this webinar?

Incorporate visual phonics and attempt decoding finger spelling with deaf pupils.
Yes, incorporate visual phonics into teaching.
Review school processes for teaching phonics to deaf learners.
I will incorporate some aspects of both pathways.
Yes I intend to begin using the visual phonics this week with my primary 1s.
I am considering using the synthetic graphemes method with severely language deprived individuals that come to my school as a pilot and recommending that the link primary follow suit with either VP or SG.
Implementing using the visual cues along side phonics teaching.
I will try both approaches with different pupils.
Would like to try both approaches to different pupils.
Use some of the approaches when supporting deaf children in mainstream.
Find out more about synthetic grapheme coding, implement more repetitive conversion.
I will try incorporating different approaches as appropriate.
We will reevaluate how our service delivers phonics and reading support to our students.
Will re-evaluate how our service delivers phonics support to classrooms.

What was best about the webinar?

Supporting materials which will be emailed to reflect back on!
Visual phonics.
Was great to attend an in person course and observe concrete materials.
Increasing my knowledge of how to teach phonics to deaf children.
The practical examples given by both facilitators - explaining and providing examples of how to use each approach with deaf learners.
Lots of new ideas, well paced, great to see example lesson plans provided as I am secondary trained and unfamiliar with how phonics lessons are conducted in primary.
The breakdown of the process on how to help the pupils and implement the processes.
İntroduction to new ideas.
I liked hearing the structure of how to deliver this in a lesson.
Practical examples and lesson ideas, video of approach in action.
Meeting colleagues, sharing experiences, picking out new ideas.
Learning different approaches.
Brian's presentation. Explanations, reasoning and demonstration of the strategy in action.
Synthetic phonics - clear reasoning on why it works and video to show it in action.

What, if anything, could have been improved about the webinar?

Videos of visual phonics
Nothing (3)
I enjoyed it.
Ppts shared in advance.
More real life examples of both methods by film.
I would love to see more video examples of each method in practise.
Discussion of application in secondary schooling with severely language deprived cases.
İnclude visual phonics for digraphs.
More video examples.
Most primary teachers will already have a good understanding of the principals of teaching phonics so it felt a lot of time was lost going over material that was already known, understood and implemented. This could have been a pre-learning resource for those who maybe don't have a primary background.
Less time spent on background phonics knowledge. Most primary teachers are already aware of this. May be a case for having this as pre-learning for staff to look at before attending the course.

How did you hear about this course?

SSC direct email: 10
Line Manager: 4

What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?

I would love more input in relation to teaching literacy to deaf learners.
Shape coding.
Practical ideas for reading and writing.
Any new updates on approaches to teaching deaf children.
Similar, it is good to hear from different people and their experiences of teaching deaf children and the approaches they have used.
Affordable assessments. (2)