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University of Bedfordshire: Education (National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination)

Institution University of Bedfordshire
Department School of Education and English Language
Web http://www.beds.ac.uk
Email admission@beds.ac.uk
Telephone 0300 3300 073
Study type Taught

Summary

The National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination (NASENCO) is a legally required qualification for all new Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs).

This course will support you to improve your knowledge of current legislation, theory and practice in Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision in schools/colleges and your skills in meeting those needs.

This course will assist you to fulfil your leadership role as outlined in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice for 0 to 25 years (DfE, 2014):

  • Overseeing the operation of the institution’s SEN policy

  • Coordinating provision for SEND

  • Liaising with the relevant designated teacher where a looked after pupil has SEN

  • Advising on a graduated approach to providing SEN Support and effective deployment of the institution’s delegated budget and other resources

  • Liaising with families of children with SEN, other schools and relevant external professionals/ agencies

  • Liaising with potential next providers of education and consulting young people and families to ensure a smooth transition is planned

  • Working with the headteacher and school governors to ensure that the school conforms to the Equality Act (2010)

  • Ensuring that the institution keeps records of young people with SEN up to date.

You will be able to tailor the three assignments to fit your, and your institution’s, needs.

Why choose this course?

  • Study on a course designed for to develop SENCOs’ professional attributes and knowledge, understanding and skills, to enable you to fulfill the leadership role set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice for 0 to 25 years (DfE, 2015).

  • Explore course content highly relevant to mainstream and special school practitioners alike, focusing on issues related to literacy difficulties and dyslexia in schools, and how potential barriers to learning can be removed

  • Develop your understanding of concepts, theories and approaches to literacy difficulties, including dyslexia, and inclusion in schools, and on your potential for influencing change

  • Gain insight into the learning of dyslexic and other pupils/students who experience difficulties in literacy development/specific learning difficulties, and ways in which learning might be more effectively supported

  • Benefit from a qualification that could be used as the basis for a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) claim into an MA Education course (Level 7).

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