ED4U006 - Leading and Managing SEN / ALN 01 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2027 | Version 5

Associated Module Information

Module Code: ED4U006
Module Title: Leading and Managing SEN / ALN
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Professional Learning in Education
Faculty Sub Group: Social Work
Module Leader: Gareth Dart, Elsa Torres
Module Team:
First Intended Intake: SEP 2016 Final Year of Intake: 2022
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 30 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100462 - learning support
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 5
Valid From 01 Sep 2020
Valid To 31 Aug 2027

Module Aims

To develop the educational practitioners’ professional attributes and improve their knowledge, understanding, skills and capacity to fully include children and young people with SEN / ALN and raise their achievement.

To develop a critical response to relevant current national and international research and literature.

To provide educational practitioners with the opportunity to undertake systematic reflection on their values and their professional practice in order to improve the experience of children and young people with SEN / ALN.

To develop the skills to enable educational practitioners to use a range of relevant data, collected at individual, school and national levels to inform and improve their practice.

Content Summary

1) Leading and Managing SEN ALN

Identifying learning needs

Implementing support strategies

Target setting and IDP writing

Monitoring Progress

Managing the SEN /ALN Team

Evaluating Practice

2) Collaborative Working

Establishing effective communication systems

Person centred planning

Tools for listening to children and young people with SEN /ALN

Partnership working with families and external agencies

3) Transition planning for children and young people with SEN ALN

4) Managing dispute resolution and understanding the SEN Tribunal process.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 25
Seminar 5
Tutorial 1
Independent Study 200
Directed Study 69
Total Hours Selected 300

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 To critically analyse and evaluate theory, policy, processes and practice in relation to leading and managing ALN/SEN in order to generate new knowledge and understanding;
LO2 To apply this learning to their ?professional context and/or their role as ALNCo / SENCo

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Self Reflective Assessment 1 The Self Reflective Writing will consist of a personal record of the student's learning experiences in relation to each of the four content themes: It requires the students to record, in the form of a learning log, their reflections upon their reading, practical school-based observations along with conclusions and recommendations in relation to each of the four content themes. 0 5000 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Self Reflective Assessment 1

Reading List

Armstrong, D. and Squires, G (2012) Contemporary Issues In Special Educational Needs: Considering The Whole Child, Berkshire, UK: Open University Press.

Cheminais, R. (2009) Effective Multi-Agency Partnerships: Putting Every Child Matters into Practice. London: Sage Publications

Cowne, E., Frankl, C., & Gerschel L. (2015) The SENCo Handbook: Leading and Managing a Whole School Approach, London New York: Routledge

Elkins, A. (2015) The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs: Impact and implications for Senco’s, teachers and their schools (2nd Ed), Oxon: Routledge

Florian, L. (2014) The SAGE Handbook of Special Education: Two Volume Set, London: Sage Publications

Frederickson, N., & Cline, T. (2015). Special educational needs, inclusion and diversity. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill/Open University Press.

Hallett, F., & Hallett, G. (2010). Transforming the role of the SENCO: Achieving the national award for SEN coordination. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill/Open University Press.

Hodkinson, A. and Vickerman, P. (2009) Key Issues in Special Educational Needs and Inclusion, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC: Sage.

Nutbrown, C and Clough, P. (2013) Inclusion in the Early Years, (2nd Ed), London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.

Warnock, M., Norwich, B (2010) Special Educational Needs: A New Look (Key Debates in Educational Policy), London: Continuum

Journals

British Journal of Special Education

Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs

Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

European Journal of Special Needs Education – Taylor and Francis

Exceptional Children –Sage kept in USW (general SEN)

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – Wiley

Websites

www.csie.org.uk

http://www.idponline.org.uk/

http://www.sendgateway.org.uk/

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151715/https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/

http://gov.wales/topics/educationandskills/?lang=en