Special Education Needs (SEN) - CPD Accredited

The Special Education Needs (SEN) course will show you how to become a consistent, committed and charismatic SEN teacher or support worker, as well as what skills and knowledge you need to master before embarking on a career in SEN.

This online SEN course is the best course for those who wish to start a rewarding and progressive career in SEN field, learn everything to work with and help children with learning disabilities, including different areas of SEN, multiple approaches and methods of teaching for SEN children. You will also gain a firm understanding of the duties of a SENCO, along with different behavioural issues, symptoms, and common SEN conditions often found in children.

Upon successful completion of this Special Educational Needs training program, you will be able to perform a detailed assessment of children’s needs and support the planning and implementation of learning and development opportunities for children with complex learning disabilities.

Course Curriculum

What will you learn in this Special Education Needs (SEN)

Module 1: Special Needs Education Teacher

• How to become a special educational needs (SEN) teacher
• What it takes to be SEN teacher
• Definition of Special Educational Needs

Module 2: Statutory and Regulatory Context for SEN

• Get an Understanding of the SEN Code of Practice
• Learn How the SEND Tribunal, Disagreement Resolution and Mediation Work
• SEND Tribunal: If you're asked to be a witness
• Disagreement Resolution
• Learn about the Local Offer
• Get an Idea about the OfSTED Frameworks relevant to your school or work setting
• Learn about the new funding models for SEN
• Get an understanding of the policy and legislative context for health and social care, including safeguarding and the health and well-being agenda

Module 3: Principles and Practice of Leadership in Different Contexts

• Characteristics of Highly Effective Leaders
• What is Leadership?
• Models of leadership that promote successful school
• Pedagogical/instructional leadership
• Styles of Leadership
• Become a Good Leader

Module 4: How SEN and Disabilities Affect Pupils’ Participation and Learning

• Signs of Underachievement
• Categories of SEN
• Learning Difficulties
• Signs of Learning Difficulties
• What Is Physical Disability?
• Health supports for SEN students

Module 5: Strategies for Improving the Performance of the Pupils with SEN

• Teaching Strategies
• Learning strategies
• Strategies to Support a Student with a Cognitive Impairment
• Classroom management strategies
• Strategies for transfer of learning

Module 6: Whole-School Planning and Organisation

• Promoting the inclusive school
• The benefits of inclusion
• Planning for inclusion at the whole-school level
• Drawing up inclusive whole-school policies and procedures for SEN
• Whole-school policies and procedures for SEN in the school plan
• School enrolment policy
• Attendance and participation
• Code of behaviour and discipline, and measures to prevent bullying or harassment of students with SEN
• Transfer of students to post-primary schools from primary schools
• The transition from post-primary education to a post-school setting
• Resource-teaching support for students with SEN
• Accommodations in the physical environment
• Arrangements for the provision of additional teaching support to students with special educational needs
• Establishing an appropriate model of organisation

Module 7: Assessment

• The purposes of assessment
• Methods of assessment
• Developing a whole-school policy on assessment
• Selection and use of appropriate test instruments

Module 8: Teamwork for SEN: Roles and Functions

• Role and functions of the board of management
• Boards of management and parents
• The SEN Support Team
• Duties of the Principal
• Duties of the Mainstream Teachers
• The Resource Teacher
• Duties of the Parents

Module 9: Planning for Individual Students with SEN

• Individual planning
• The benefits of individual planning
• Steps to individual planning
• Record-keeping
• Implementing the individual education plan

Module 10: Teaching and Learning in the Inclusive School

• Classroom climate
• Support for learning
• Teaching for inclusion
• Cooperative teaching
• Cooperative learning
• Students’ involvement in identifying learning targets and in self-assessment
• Learning styles
• Information and communications technology (ICT)

Method of Assessment:

Upon completion of the course, you will be required to sit for an online multiple-choice quiz based assessment, which will determine whether you have passed the course (60% pass mark). The test will be marked immediately and results will be published instantly.

Certification

After successfully completing the course, you will be able to obtain the certificates. You can claim a PDF certificate by paying a little processing fee of £2. There is an additional fee to obtain a hardcopy certificate which is £9.

This Special Education Needs (SEN) course is suitable for anyone who want to gain extensive knowledge, potential experience and professional skills in the related field.

• This course is available to all learners, of all academic backgrounds.
• Learners should be aged 16 or over to undertake the qualification.
• Good understanding of English language, numeracy and ICT are required to attend this course.

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