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PgCert Specialist Teaching and Assessment for Dyslexia

PgCert Specialist Teaching and Assessment for Dyslexia

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Part time | Medway Campus | 1 year | 23-SEP-24

Study mode

Part time

Duration

1 year

Start date

23-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Certificate

Subject areas

Dyslexic People: Teaching Teaching (General)

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

The Postgraduate Certificate in Specialist Teaching and Assessment for Dyslexia provides teachers and professionals in practice an opportunity to gain a professional qualification in supporting learners with dyslexia. The programme has been accredited by the British Dyslexia Association as meeting the requirements for AMBDA (Associate Member of the British Dyslexia Association).

This Postgraduate Certificate is ideal if you are interested in:

  • Becoming a specialist teacher for Dyslexia
  • Assessing for Dyslexia
  • Completing assessments for the JCQ (Joint council for Qualifications) Access Arrangements
  • Working towards the professional status of AMBDA (Associate Member of the British Dyslexia Association)
  • Working towards achieving an APC (Assessment Practicing Certificate)

Your future career

This programme meets the criteria for individuals to apply for the professional status of AMBDA with the British Dyslexia Association within three years of successful completion.

You will be able to complete specialist teaching and also assess children for dyslexia.

Modules

You will plan, implement and evaluate appropriate pedagogical approaches in your setting by completing a piece of action research. You will critically examine current theory and research in relation to literacy skills development and identify issues arising out of your practice in working with learners with specific learning difficulties/dyslexia. You will design, deliver and critically evaluate learners? progress in appropriate teaching programmes, developing your understanding of effective study methods. (Required documents to be submitted in the Professional Portfolio of Practice).

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£3,775

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£6,425

Entry requirements

Entry to the programme normally requires an honours degree (2.2 or above), or evidence of other relevant study at Level 6.

University information

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) was first established in 1962 and has, for over 60 years, built an exceptional reputation for the quality of its study programmes. In total there are around 20,000 students enrolled at the university, with a fifth enrolled in a postgraduate qualification. Students study in one of three academic faculties: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social...more

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