Teaching code

4S006153

Credits

10

Coordinator

Ivan Traina

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PED/03 - METHODOLOGIES OF TEACHING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Erasmus students

Not available

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

Special Needs Pedagogy
The goal of the course is to let preservice teachers understand the challenges that students with special educational needs represent in contemporary school: the focus is related to the role of the teacher in this challenge. At the same time it is crucial to identify the necessary sources to realize an inclusive project: it starts from the knowledge of the different realities the students can find in a class (Special Educational Needs, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, foreign students, behavioral diseases). In order to achieve this, the teacher needs inclusive educational skills and, in the meanwhile, the ability to reach compensatory and dispensatory techniques: teachers must be able to evaluate the competence of the student trying to highlight their strong points such as the cognitive profile and way of learning, beyond difficulties. Preservice teachers will learn to find the most efficient strategies: a special attention will be given to the most efficient techniques for the classroom management.

Teaching for inclusion
The goal of the course is to describe the different problematic situations that a teacher must face (Special Educational Needs, ADHD, ASD, foreign students, behavioral problems), and to give to preservice teacher the skills of inclusive education necessary to put into place compensatory and dispensatory measures. Besides the preservice teachers will also learn to assess the skills of the student trying to highlight their cognitive and learning style because this evaluation makes it possible to establish the most effective teaching strategies in the individual disciplines, to ensure the inclusion of students in difficulty.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The prerequisites for students are:
- knowledge of the main pedagogical and didactic theories for students aged 3-6 years;
- general knowledge of psychological development of students aged 3-6 years.

Program

The topics covered by the program include:
- Introduction and basic concepts of inclusion
- Historical excursus of models and approaches to disability and analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Analysis of the biopsychosocial model and introduction to the ICF
- The regulatory framework that led to inclusion and Special Educational Needs
- The PEI, PDP and the Index for Inclusion. Tools’ comparison
- The inclusive school: what aspects to be considered to create a climate of inclusion
- The prerequisites and classroom management for inclusion
- The inclusive curriculum
- The profile of teachers for inclusive school of
- The classmates resource

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Different teaching methods will be used:
- frontal lessons;
- case studies analysis;
- exercises;
- short films video;
- experiences drawn from professional contexts.

Learning assessment procedures

Tests aimed at evaluating the achievement of course’s objectives.
The exam will be structured into 15 questions with multiple choice answers, regarding the topics contained in the slides presented during lessons.

Evaluation criteria

The test, the same for attending and non-attending students, assess the achievement of course’s objectives.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The evaluation will be out of thirty. Each correct answer is 2/30. Every mistake or missed answer is zero points. To pass the exam, you must correctly answer at least 9 questions.

Exam language

Italiano