BA Learning and Teaching (Special Educational Needs and Disability)(no longer recruiting)

Year 2

Learning outcomes

On completion of Level 1 of the programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- LO1 Demonstrate basic skills and competences and a have started to develop a reflective approach in a professional teaching or learning support role

- LO2 Start to develop an awareness of the wider social, political and economic contexts within which learning occurs

- LO3 Start to identify relevant concepts and knowledge and develop practical skills which are relevant to their work context;

- LO4 Effectively communicate information, explanations and analysis in a variety of forms

- LO5 Meet appropriate professional standards where relevant

- LO6 Start to explore and apply educational processes and practices

Professional Skills

- Recognise & respond to the need to support & include all learners

- Develop & support effective strategies to ensure acknowledgement of diversity & provision of equity

- Make effective use of Standard English and modelling grammar, punctuation and spelling in learning materials and resources (reasonable adjustments will be applied to this)


Ethics and Responsibility: you will come to understand the ethics of academic enquiry and engage with ethical issues arising from your discipline;

Global and cultural insight: you will engage with ideas and understanding in a global context and be encouraged to recognise the significance of our rich and varied heritage of perspectives and cultures;

Employability: throughout your studies you will have opportunity to develop skills and knowledge that build you capacity for career development.

Transferable (key) skills

You will have the opportunity to develop your creative skills (for example, in developing stories for learners or learning resources), your digital skills (for example, through the development of interactive online learning resources or training packages), your research skills (through two research focused modules and your final year project) and your employability skills (in all modules), both for the educational sector and beyond

Assessment

The course is assessed entirely through coursework assignments, with a wide range of assessment types which are authentic and relevant to work in the sector, for example, planning and delivering a microteach session to peers on a topic of your choice or developing a scheme of work for a group of learners you are familiar with. Students are provided with opportunities to focus on topics of interest in assessments; for example, to choose an area of SEND and deliver a short presentation on this to peers, and there is scope to negotiate assessment titles with module tutors on some modules.

You are also encouraged to draw and reflect on your own experiences of learning and supporting learning to explore and analyse how theories of learning and teaching and published research can be applied to real life contexts.