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Learning Outcomes Portfolio

Module description

This is a non-credit bearing module and forms part of the National Award for SEN Coordination. This module directly connects to the nationally mandated SENCO Learning Outcomes. Over the course of the programme, you build up knowledge and skills and reflect on these and your own experience to support the meeting of each SENCO Learning Outcome. Modules EFPM278 SEN Organisational Contexts and EFPM279 SEN Leading on Teaching and Learning are co-requisites.  Successful completion of all three modules leads to the National Award for SEN Coordination

Module aims - intentions of the module

This non-credit bearing module links with two level 7 credit bearing modules EFPM278 SEN Organisational Contexts and EFPM279 SEN Leading on Teaching and Learning. The general aim of all three modules is to equip Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) with the knowledge, understanding and skills to carry out this role effectively.  

Along with the two credit bearing modules, this module reflects the overall course aims:

• to increase the participation of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and raise their achievement, through developing SENCOs' professional attributes and improving their knowledge, understanding and skills.
• to prepare SENCOs to lead teaching and learning and the provision for children and young people in their school or other educational setting who have SEND.
• to provide opportunities for SENCOs to share good practice and reflect critically and actively on their own role and practice.

The aim of this module is to enable students (SENCOs) to provide evidence of, and reflection, on the range of essential knowledge, skills and experience gained prior to and during the course (SENCO Learning Outcomes). This is a Pass/Fail module.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the statutory and regulatory context for SEND and the implications for practice in their school or other educational setting;
• 2. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of principles and practice of leadership in different contexts;
• 3. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how SEND affect children and young people's participation and learning;
• 4. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for improving outcomes for children and young people with SEND;
• 5. work strategically with senior colleagues and governors, leading, developing and, where necessary, challenging;
• 6. critically evaluate evidence about learning, teaching and assessment in relation to children and young people with SEND to inform practice;
• 7. draw on external sources of support and expertise;
• 8. develop, implement and monitor systems in relation to SEND;

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 9. engage critically on the relationship between educational theory and practice;
• 10. problematise educational practice in terms of disability/difference/special educational

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 11. demonstrate reflective and analytic thinking, critically evaluating arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data to make judgements;
• 12. undertake independent learning, self-management and organization;
• 13. demonstrate written communication skills, including the ability to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions; and
• 14. demonstrate information technology skills.

Syllabus plan

This is not a taught module and there is no explicit syllabus.

The 49 NCTL SENCO Learning Outcomes form the content of the portfolio.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/354172/nasc-learning-outcomes-final.pdf

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

There are no explicit learning resources though students (SENCOs) may use resources available and suggested through the two accompanying modules, EFPM278 and EFPM279.

Key words search

SENCO, Learning Outcomes Portfolio