Teaching code

4S006153

Credits

10

Coordinator

Ivan Traina

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

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 the psychological development of students aged 3-6 years.

Program

The program is composed of the contents of the courses Special Pedagogy for Inclusion, Special Teaching for Inclusion, and the related workshops on the topics presented in the two courses.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Teaching methods will be:
- lectures;
- group exercises;
- discussion of lecture content;
- laboratory activities.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam consists of a test for the Special Education for Inclusion course, one for the Special Teaching for Inclusion course, and laboratory evaluations.

Evaluation criteria

The final evaluation will take into account the results, knowledge, and skills acquired during the Special Education for Inclusion course, the Special Teaching for Inclusion course, and the workshops.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade will be the weighted average of the results of the two exams related to the courses and the laboratory activity evaluations, expressed in thirtieths.

Exam language

Italiano

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