Professional Graduate Diploma in Education -Teaching Post-16 and Further Education (SEND)

Lincoln Bishop University

The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education - Teaching Post-16 and Further Education (SEND) offers education, training and development to graduates who are practising or aspiring teachers who wish to undertake the role of teacher of learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Teaching Post-16 and Further Education) SEND is part of an integrated programme for teachers in the education, training and skills sector such as further education colleges, private sector training providers and offender education. It will develop your knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of teaching, learning and assessment, and teachers’ wider, professional engagement in the sector. It offers a challenging, supportive and rewarding experience to promote informed, reflective and effective teaching and professional development.It combines teaching practice, academic learning, and personal, professional development. Teaching practice will be undertaken within an arranged placement in order to develop the teaching of your specialist subject. SEND teaching offers enormous scope. For instance, you might teach personal independence and social skills to people with profound learning difficulties, help students in pupil referral units or prisons learn basic maths and English, tutor autistic students in alternative provision, or support learners with hearing or visual impairments to develop employability skills.You may be required to travel to this placement using an appropriate mode of transport, which may incur an additional cost. You will be allocated a work-based mentor, who will typically be a professional practitioner with expertise in your subject or a closely allied area.Throughout the programme, modules are delivered concurrently to your teaching practice, allowing you to make robust connections between theory and practice and develop the habit of reflective evaluation. All modules re-enforce the concept of reflective practice as essential to effective teaching and learning, as well as the personal and professional development within your chosen specialist subject. Our modules are designed to help you gain a high level of understanding in the teaching, learning and assessment of students with a diverse range of needs. These include learners in challenging and complex circumstances and those with learning difficulties, physical disabilities, sensory impairments and social, emotional, mental health or behavioural challenges, alongside the sound knowledge of ‘generic’ education offered by the course.

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