- Code
- EDU 210
- Name
- Special Education
- Semester
- 4
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
The course gives a general overview of Special Education. Various basic concepts that are pertinent to Special Education are clarified. Major principles in the practice of Special Education are also covered.Classifications of Special Persons forming the strata of students with special needs are discussed extensively. Common causes of disabilities are discussed.The various ways by which students with special needs can be recognized also form part of the course. In addition, Curriculum and Instructional needs of gifted students are also dealt with.
- Objectives
-
Successful completion of this course will be determined by how well students demonstrate an understanding of the course objectives. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: - acquire knowledge about change in the prevailing and emerging Albanian society in view of recent trends in education and national development. -understand and have a greater understanding of concepts like Inclusive Education, Integration, Mainsreaming,Segregation, Special Units and Individualized Educational Plan (IEP). -list and explain major principles and political documents on Special Education. -identify the special needs of children and develop confidence in them to realize their potentials and abilities to meet the national development with self respect, dignity and freedom. -develop skills and competencies to cater to the needs of children with disabilities in general, and special class settings in particular, in cognitive, affective and skill domains. -equip in various techniques of teaching and evaluation in special and inclusive set up. - design methods and ways of assisting persons with disabilities learn better
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Psychological aspects in special education
- 2
- Disability in the social and multicultural context
- 3
- Neuropsychology and developmental psychology of children with disabilities
- 4
- Strategies and Policies approved and adopted to improve Special Needs Education
- 5
- The person’s experience of disability
- 6
- Facilitating the Family in Developmental Disability
- 7
- Special Education and Early Childhood
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Reaction to disablement.
- 10
- Roles and responsibilities of teachers, educational psychologists and other specialist staff for the education of children with disabilities
- 11
- Educational issues about disability
- 12
- Employment and disability issues.
- 13
- Special education realities and perspectives of teaching children with disabilities in Albania
- 14
- Debates about inclusion, mainstreaming and social exclusion
- 15
- The use of psychological research in studying children with disabilities.
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students will be able to demonstrate, through module coursework and examination, advanced knowledge of a range of core subject areas, defined in the BPS syllabus, addressed through the study of special educational needs.
- 2
- Students will be able to apply knowledge of psychological research in evaluating and assessing educational methods or materials in workshop and / or coursework activities
- 3
- Students will be able to discuss current issues and debates surrounding special and inclusive education, including an awareness of issues surrounding special educational needs.
- 4
- Students will be able to use knowledge of research methodologies and statistics to analyse and evaluate research work in SEN.
- 5
- Students will be able to identify the different kinds of Special Needs Education and the methodological approaches and strategies used to handle each of them
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 40%
- Final exam percent
- 60%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 0 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 1 10 10
- Total workLoad
- 125
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 5.00