3rd TRAINING COURSE - Special Educational Needs

  • Training hosted by Anglolang, September 2-13, 2019 in Scarborough, United Kingdom. Participants: Pedro Peixoto and Elisabete Barbosa.

    Main objectives of the course:

    - Understand the theoretical framework of education for special educational needs;
    - Understand how social, artistic and gaming activities can improve the development of support factors;
    - Identify risks, factors and barriers to integration and inclusion;
    - Develop communication, collaboration, presentation, problem solving, negotiation, criticism and creative thinking skills;
    - Engage with learner-centered approaches in special needs education contexts such as task-based learning and problem-based learning within a fictional context of procedural drama;
    - Improve understanding of potential simulations and role playing for integration, inclusion and learning in special needs education;
    - Provide and exercise creative ideas and practical resources for the successful implementation of creative methods in education for special educational needs in different contexts;
    - Improve fluency in English;
    - Promote intercultural awareness;
    - Sharing special needs education experiences from different organizations to help each of us be more effective in our work;
    - Develop the online collaboration platform for preparation, dissemination, and networking to develop future partnerships and projects;
    - Strengthen European collaboration between people involved in special needs education and practice creative methods in different contexts;
    - Make contact with different educational systems.