The course aims to help you build professional skills required by Learning Support Educators to assist and support the teacher in the general classroom. The programme equips you with the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to support teachers in creating an effective classroom experience for all students. The programme will focus on knowledge and skills to be able to support individuals with mild to severe disabilities, mild to severe learning difficulties and mild to severe challenging behaviour and the prevention thereof. It also aims to improve the competencies, skills, effectiveness and confidence that learning support educators seek to bring to your work.
The course is designed to allow you to develop an understanding of the curriculum, education policy, principles of education, knowledge of the challenges met in classrooms when supporting learning of children with learning difficulties and the implementation of positive behavioural approaches.
Communication and Academic Skills Programme
The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL2002 | Practice Placement 2 | 8 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL2005 | Parental Involvement | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2021 | Inclusive Language Practices in Academic Research | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3009 | Exclusion, Inclusion and Schooling | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Stream - Primary specialisation Elective Unit | |||||||||||
| EPE2014 | Curriculum Knowledge: Early Years | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Stream - Secondary specialisation Elective Unit | |||||||||||
| IAL2009 | Curriculum Knowledge: Language Learning in Secondary Years | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| EDS2002 | Research Methods in Inclusive Education | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2003 | Observation Techniques for Assessment and Support for Learning | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3003 | Aids for Daily Living: Towards Autonomy and Self-Determination and Quality of Life | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3004 | Early Childhood Intervention: A Family Centred Approach | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Summer Semester | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL2004 | Low-Incidence Disabilities | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2011 | Cooperative and Collaborative Learning | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3012 | Understanding Special Health Procedures | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of students and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| IAL2017 | Maltese Sign Language: Communication Made Simple | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2018 | Technologies for Indusion in the School and in the Community for the Blind and Partially Sighted | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL3000 | Practice Placement 3 | 8 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3001 | Long Essay | 12 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL2023 | Supporting Students with Severe Communication Disabilities | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3002 | Children and Social Welfare: Rights and Legal Issues with Special Reference to Persons with Disabilities | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3007 | The Multilingual and Multicultural Classroom | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Stream - Primary specialisation Elective Unit | |||||||||||
| IAL3005 | Curriculum Knowledge: Primary Years (Language and Humanities) | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Stream - Secondary specialisation Elective Unit | |||||||||||
| IAL3006 | Curriculum Knowledge: Secondary Years (Math and Science) | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL2012 | Supporting Gifted and Talented Learners | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2022 | Designing and Evaluating IEPs - Advanced | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3008 | Specific Learning Difficulties | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL3011 | Preventing and Responding to Mental Health Issues in Schools | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
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| Summer Semester | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| IAL2006 | Children Agency and Voice for Self-Determination | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2013 | Effective Interventions for Managing Positive Behaviour Support: A Whole School Approach | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| IAL2014 | The Development of Communication and Language | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
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This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Facilitating Inclusive Education - B.A. (Hons) - under the auspices of the Faculty of Education.
