SSC Course 11: How can we facilitate good outcomes for children with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)?
Presented on Friday 8th June 2018.
Courses evaluation summary
Number of Participants: 28
Number of Respondents: 26
Overall Assessment:
How would you rate the following: Poor = 1; Excellent = 5
Enhancement to your expertise |
3.65 |
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Content and supplementary material |
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3.96 |
Will you do anything differently as a result of today's training?
Took loads of notes, no time to process and put into action any gaps!
Discussion with colleagues - I teach in a big school with a number of children with CVI and training thus far is limited.
Too much information without clear structure to presentation. Difficult to take it all in especially in afternoon.
Check those with Williams syndrome.
QTVI postgraduate training course in the near future.
Rethink and examine how I'm working with all kids with CVI.
Tighten up my own practice.
Take back the information to our children's clinic. How do we (VI teachers) know about or find these children? - only appear if "someone out there" knows about CVI and raises questions. How do we move forward? Who's going to do the assessments? What materials/assessments used?
Further contribution to school policies/strategies including School Improvement Plan (SIP).
More practical strategies that could be used.
Reflection on interaction and speed of learning then implement with my class team.
Yes, I need to talk with headteacher regarding content and speed of delivery of some lessons.
Have confidence to promote principles.
It was good to hear that I am doing a lot of things right!
Look more closely at TeachCVI tools for those with undiagnosed CVI.
Look at numerous children for CVI.
Try to become more aware of possible undiagnosed CVI cases I work with. I will do hand under hand prompts from now on!
How would you rate the following: Excellent = 1; Poor = 5
Clarity of presentation |
3.77 | ||||
Pacing of course/event |
3.21 |
What was best about the course/event?
Great speaker - really enthusiastic!
Lots of information given, plus reading list in pack was good to receive.
Any strategies/activities recommended.
Practical activity this afternoon.
Recap on CVI
Really experienced speaker - very professional.
Hearing from someone with so much expertise and knowledge.
Linking signs of CVI to other diagnoses. Working with Occupational Therapists.
Examples through experience of working with children - with CVI were good. Factual information about CVI in medical conditions I did not know before.
Practical resource suggestions. Misunderstanding/confusion with other diagnoses. Warning signs and raising of awareness of CVI.
Janet's experience with both mainstream and complex learning needs was an excellent aspect of the course.
Links to useful websites.
The practical element was fantastic and helped put us in the child's shoes.
Vast knowledge of presenter.
Lots of experiences shared. Reassurance of what I have learned to date but also development of knowledge.
Janet really knows CVI inside out.
Extremely knowledgeable presenter. Lots of practical ideas.
All of it! Really good - Thank you.
Knowledgeable and passionate speaker.
The ability to network with colleagues in other authorities. Hearing Janet Harwood share her expertise.
What, if anything, could have been improved about the course?
Going into assessments (specific for CVI) but this was touched on via questionnaires.
More participant involvement to increase engagement, even just chatting to partner for a couple of minutes at a time.
More on strategies that we can use earlier on - not hidden within the anecdotes.
More practical strategies/programmes of work to use with MDVI/CVI
A break in the morning as quite a long time to listen to very relevant information.
More practical strategies - showing work done.
Overload of information.
Perhaps more practical activities.
Pace too fast for the amount of information presented. Less use of medical terms/acronyms or clearer explanation. One case study was optical VI and not CVI/practical demonstration not relevant to CVI.
Too much information so seemed a bit rushed. Would have preferred training on how to help children with CVI in terms of strategies for class teachers to use - with mainstream children and complex - specific to CVI areas - e.g. dorsal or ventral and how to adapt their curriculum.
A bit overwhelming! Amount of information.
Clearer sections on Powerpoint - more group discussion - overwhelming with length of Powerpoint and amount of information.
Would have been helpful to have printed slides to refer to/write on during presentation.
Pace of course was very fast. Too much information from a Powerpoint. Overload. Need to change methods of presenting. Afternoon repeated a lot of the morning content.
Not long enough but the content was fantastic. (slower pace or earlier start?)
Not long enough - could have been two days.
Break over a couple of day sessions. Pacing. A lot of print presented. A lot of information (useful).
A lot of information fitted into one day.
Maybe resources used in case studies shown or photos of them?
Perhaps some more practical activities or time to discuss case studies or other discussions in pairs/groups. It was a lot of information to take in as the day was mostly listening to speaker.
More videos of working with children would be beneficial to see.
How did you hear about this course?
Course Info Email from SSC: 13
Co-ordinator/Line Manager: 5
SSC eBulletin: 3
Colleague: 2
SSC Website: 2
What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?
More basic training for classroom teachers struggling in mainstreams (could state level of knowledge required before signing up) with less medical terms/shortened terms - slower pace less information.
Generally from Scottish Sensory Centre: Sensory; Integration into mainstream; Support to give mainstream pupils strategies to work with Learning Communication Support Centre (LCSC) pupils.
Braille teaching.
Anything related to CVI/VI in general education.