Education (National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination) Distance Learning PgCert

University of Bedfordshire

Postgraduate

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Luton

About the course This is an online version of the National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination (NASENCO), a legally required qualification for all new Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs). This course will support you to improve your knowledge of current legislation, theory and practice in Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision in schools/colleges and your skills in meeting those needs. This course will assist you to fulfil your leadership role as outlined in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice for 0 to years (DfE, ): Overseeing the operation of the institution’s SEN policyCoordinating provision for SENDLiaising with the relevant designated teacher where a looked after pupil has SENAdvising on a graduated approach to providing SEN Support and effective deployment of the institution’s delegated budget a.

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Location

Start date

Luton (Bedfordshire)
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University Of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton Campus (Vicarage Street), LU1 3JU

Start date

On request

About this course

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Leadership
  • Literacy

Course programme

  • Study on a course designed for to develop SENCOs’ professional attributes and knowledge, understanding and skills, to enable you to fulfil the leadership role set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice for 0 to years (DfE, ).
  • Explore course content highly relevant to mainstream and special school practitioners alike, focusing on issues related to literacy difficulties and dyslexia in schools, and how potential barriers to learning can be removed
  • Develop your understanding of concepts, theories and approaches to literacy difficulties, including dyslexia, and inclusion in schools, and on your potential for influencing change
  • Gain insight into the learning of dyslexic and other pupils/students who experience difficulties in literacy development/specific learning difficulties, and ways in which learning might be more effectively supported
  • Benefit from a qualification that could be used as the basis for a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) claim into an MA Education course (Level 7).
  • Introduction to special educational needs co-ordination in schools
  • Further development of special educational needs co-ordination in schools

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