COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TEACHING SOCIAL SKILLS TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖEP 5067 TEACHING SOCIAL SKILLS TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Special Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR BURAK KARABEY

Offered to

Special Education

Course Objective

Gain knowledge on teaching social skills to people with disabilities

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to describe related with social competencies
2   Will be able to classify social skills and use assesment strategies of social skills.
3   Will be able to describe social skills training strategies.
4   Explain using social stories on social skills training
5   Explain using video modelling on social skills training

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts: Social competence, social skills and etc.
2 Classification of social skills
3 Assesment of social skills.
4 Sociometric technics.
5 Natural observation, functional analysis
6 Strategies of teaching social skills.
7 Literature review of studies conducted by using social skills training.
8 Midterm
9 Literature review of studies conducted by using social skills training.
10 To present and discuss of each student's proposal.
11 To present and discuss of each student's proposal
12 To present and discuss of each student's proposal.
13 Generalization of social skills.
14 Social validity about teaching social skills
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Kaltsounis, Theodore (1987). Teaching social studies in the elementary school: The basic for citizenship(Sec.Ed.) New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc.
Michaelis, John U., Garcia, Jesus (1996). Social studies for children: A guide to basic instruction (11. Ed.) Allyn and Bacon, Boston.
Savage, Tom V., Armstrong, David G. (1987). Effective teaching in elementary social studies. Mac mllan Pub.Com., NewYork.
Turner, Thomas N.(1999). Essentials of classrom teaching series: essentials of elementary social studies (Sec.Ed.)Allyn and Bacon, Boston

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Discussion, Question & Answer, Team/Group Work, Problem Solving, Brain Storming, Report Preparation and/or Presentation, Proje Design/Management

Assessment Methods

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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gunseli.girgin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 191

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.15443221
LO.25443221
LO.35443221
LO.45443221
LO.55443221

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