MA Education with Special Needs

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Our degree will help you to stand out when applying for senior leadership roles, provide you with professional confidence to support your decisions and offer you the National Award for Special Needs Coordination. You will be able to work in a variety of educational settings as a SENCO or other professional who works with SEN issues.

SEN Coordinator
Inclusion Advisor
SEN Teacher
Learning Coach

Reflecting on Professional Practice in SEN (20 credits)

This module is designed to improve the effectiveness of your teaching and increase the positive impact on the outcomes of the children and young people you teach. It is focused on the development of policy and practice in the area of Special Educational Needs and inclusion.

Developing Professional Enquiry Skills (20 credits)

You will learn to successfully research the impact of personal practice on children’s and young people’s outcomes. You will apply these skills in a professional context and undertake a small scale critical enquiry.

Leadership, Management & Collaborative Working in SEN (20 credits)

After you complete this module your skills, awareness and understanding of how the leadership and management functions and practice in schools relate to the achievement of outcomes for children and young people and staff will be substantially improved.

Diversity & Learners (20 credits)

This is an opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of a range of inclusion issues; examples could include English as an Additional Language (EAL), gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) and other areas of Special Education Needs (SEN).

Curriculum Perspectives (20 credits)

You will learn to embed your professional attributes, knowledge, understanding and skills needed into your practice. As a result you will be able to critically analyse a range of sources of evidence in order to improve your curricula.

Dynamics of Teaching, Learning & Assessment (20 credits)

This module is designed to develop your ability to appraise recent research and enquiry into theories of learning and teaching, develop a critical understanding of the role of assessment and to use classroom data effectively to inform personalised learning pathways for pupils.

Major Independent Study (60 credits)

You will complete an independent action research project to examine an issue in your practice, come up with solutions, test those solutions and then examine the outcome to see if the issue has been successfully resolved.