COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SPECIAL EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖEB 4001 SPECIAL EDUCATION COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Elementary Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR AYFER KOCABAŞ

Offered to

Elementary Teacher Education
Elementary Teacher Education

Course Objective

After completing this course, students with special needs children and be able to describe the basic information in the field of special education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   will be able to debate the special education and its foundations.
2   . will be able to explain causes of the needs of special education.
3   will be able to define different disability types.
4   be able to debate inclusion and inclusion applications related to her/his area.
5   . will be able to list the feelings of families who have children with special needs and their relationship with specialists

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to special education.
2 Reasons to be special needs.
3 Mainstreaming environment and effective teaching instructional arrangements.
4 Mentally disorders.
5 Gifted and talented children.
6 Children with learning difficulties.
7 Children with emotional and behavioral disorders.
8 Midterm exam
9 Children with visual impairment.
10 Children with hearing impairment.
11 Orthopedic deficiency of the affected children with a disability and health care of children with a disability.
12 Children with autism.
13 Individualized education program.
14 Lack of communication with children.
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Resource:
Diken, I. H. (2010). Özel Eğitime Gereksinimi Olan Öğrenciler ve Özel Eğitim. (2. Baskı). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.

Other resources:
Ataman, A. (2003). Özel Gereksinimli Çocuklar Ve Özel Eğitime Giriş. Ankara: Gündüz Eğitim ve Yayıncılık.
Cavkaytar, A. ve Diken, I. H. (2005). Özel Eğitime Giriş. Ankara: Kök Yayıncılık.
Eripek. S. (2008). Özel Eğitim. Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi AÖF Okulöncesi Öğretmenliği Lisans Programı.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Discussion, Question & Answer, Case Study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term, final

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 80

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19
LO.143
LO.243
LO.343
LO.443
LO.543

CONTACT INFORMATION
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