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SEN Teaching Assistant (Level 3)


UK Learning College

Summary

Price
£498.75 inc VAT
Study method
Distance learning
Duration
100 hours · Self-paced
Qualification
Qualification One: Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant Diploma, Qualification Two: Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant Level 3 Award
Awarded by NCFE - Investing In Quality
Additional info
  • Tutor is available to students

Overview

A distance learning course is the ideal way to gain a qualification in Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant. Whether you're looking to go on to further education, improve your job prospects or expand your knowledge, distance learning Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant is a flexible and convenient course, which allows you to comprehensively prepare for an exam or career through home study. What's more, because the distance learning Level 3 Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant course is a fully comprehensive course, no prior knowledge is required.

If you've always wanted to be involved in the classroom, helping children to understand how to communicate and interpret this world we've built for them, and have a passion to help those who are less or more able than the majority (gifted or talented children need help too), here's your chance to set out on a highly-rewarding and fulfilling new career.

The government is pushing hard for better adult to child ratios in the classroom. Money is being pumped into schools across the country to help them take on more Teaching Assistants, as this is regarded as the quickest, most cost-effective way to improve the staffing situation. SEN Teaching Assistants are in particularly short supply, so you will never have a better opportunity to get yourself up-to-speed and make a worthwhile contribution to this vibrant, positive and rewarding educational environment.

Our brand-new and revised Level 3 SEN Teaching Assistant Course will fully prepare you to take your place alongside a qualified teacher in any school in the UK. You will gain a real insight into education by studying the course, and it will provide you with the skills and knowledge to be able to take part in a wide range of classroom support activities. It will help you gain employment, and possibly whet your appetite to become a fully Qualified Teacher.

The course has been fully revised to reflect the recent changes in the teaching environment, and the wider educational world. There is even a section on the SEN reforms planned for 2014. It specifically provides information about how teachers plan and prepare lessons, deliver their subject matter, and assess students. Your role as a Teaching Assistant can be crucial in facilitating those processes.

The course opens with a discussion, which clarifies exactly what "Special Educational Needs" actually are, introduces the SEN Code of Practice 2001, and outlines what qualities you need to be a SEN Teaching Assistant. The course examines the "core learning structure", and how these skills form a vital part of teaching and working with children.  It also looks at the ways you will support classroom practices, the school and its management. You will gain insight into supporting pupils with disabilities and special educational needs, as well as the basics of literacy and numeracy.

Description

Course Content


Module 1: What are special educational needs?
Module 2: Theory of special needs
Module 3: The big picture of special educational needs provision
Module 4: SEN provision in your school
Module 5: Observation, testing and assessment
Module 6: Supporting dyslexia and literacy
Module 7: Aiding speech and language difficulties
Module 8: Managing behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
Module 9: Supporting autism and asperger syndrome
Module 10: ADHD
Module 11: Teaching talented and gifted children
Module 12: Supporting blindness and visual impairment
Module 13: Physical impairment and cerebral palsy
Module 14: Deafness and hearing impairment
Module 15: Intellectual difficulties
Module 16: Dyscalculia and numeracy
Module 17: Using technology
Module 18: The different ages of the child
Module 19: Providing support at home and choosing the right school
Module 20: Finding a job in SEN

Career path

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Special educational needs (SEN) teachers work with children and young people who have difficulties or disabilities. These children find learning harder than for most children of the same age.

 

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Study method describes the format in which the course will be delivered. At Reed Courses, courses are delivered in a number of ways, including online courses, where the course content can be accessed online remotely, and classroom courses, where courses are delivered in person at a classroom venue.

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An endorsed course is a skills based course which has been checked over and approved by an independent awarding body. Endorsed courses are not regulated so do not result in a qualification - however, the student can usually purchase a certificate showing the awarding body's logo if they wish. Certain awarding bodies - such as Quality Licence Scheme and TQUK - have developed endorsement schemes as a way to help students select the best skills based courses for them.