SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHING

Special Education Teaching Undergraduate Program is a 240 ECTS program and the normal graduation period is 4 academic years consisting of 8 semesters and, as in other departments of our university that provide undergraduate education, 1 ECTS costs 25 (hours / semester) educational workload on the student. corresponds to.

In Special Education Teaching Undergraduate Program; There are a total of six elective course areas, namely Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Disability, Special Ability, Hearing Impairment and Visual Impairment.

Opportunities Offered to Students:

Foreign language learning opportunity (Free),
Opportunity to make a minor (during normal education and with an additional year scholarship),
Opportunity to do a double major (during normal education and with an additional year scholarship),
Opportunity to study abroad with international exchange programs (1 or 2 semesters),
Possibility to continue postgraduate programs after graduation.
Career Opportunities:

Graduates of Special Education Teaching Program can work as teachers in Official or Special Education institutions, Guidance Research Centers and Rehabilitation Centers affiliated with the Ministry of National Education. Graduates have the opportunity to improve themselves by continuing their postgraduate education.

The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Expression
• Question-Answer
• Discussion
• Exercise and Practice
• Presentation
• Guided Practice
• Role-Playing
• Group Study
• Simulation
• Brain Storming
• Six Thinking Hat
• Case Study
• Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
• Self-study
• Problem Solving
• Project-Based Learning (Including Field Work)

The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
• Oral Exam
• Homework
• Project / Design
• Portfolio
• Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis

TEACHER EDUCATİON FOR SPECİAL CHİLDREN is a Bachelor's Degree Programme with 240 ECTS Credits meets the minimum level (cycle) requirements, in terms of ECTS Credits and level descriptors, of the first cycle degree qualifications of the Overarching Framework of European Qualifications Framework of HE(QF-EHEA) as well as the 6th levels of qualifications of the both the Turkish Qualifications Framework for HE (TYYÇ, NQF-HETR) and the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL) in terms of the later.

Students, upon successfully completing this study programme is awarded the qualification of BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN TEACHER EDUCATİON FOR SPECİAL CHİLDREN 

Admission of national students program is contingent on success on the nationally centralised Student Selection Examination (ÖSS) conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Centre (OSYM). For further information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution and

The Examination, Selection & Placement Centre (OSYM) .

Admission of foreign students is possible through an evaluation of students’ individual application to the university. For further and detailed information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution.

The degree is awarded to students who successfully completes a minimum of 240 ECTS from the course units of the programme with a  grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.00 out of 4.00.

Procedures to recognise prior learning (RPL), including non-formal and informal learning, is in an early stage of development in Turkey and there is no a comprehensive and enabling legislative framework at the national level in place yet. However, within the institutional autonomy respected there are some implementations at the institutional level for allocating credits towards exemption from some programme requirements on the basis of RPL. This is particularly a wide spread exercise implemented in cases that students, having a certain level of knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to fields such as foreign languages and computer use, prior to admission to the university, are subjected to an examination and if they are found successful to a certain degree required by the programme they have been admitted to, they are exempted from the relevant course units of the course programme. RPL is also practiced for students who wish to transfer their studies to the equal or an upper levels at an another institution including those from abroad in the same or similar fields. In such cases, students, having received some course units in a previous programme they had studied and having been successful, may be  exempted from the same or similar course units of the programmes they are admitted to upon the approval the adaptation committees of the programmes.

Such procedures of recognition are also used comprehensively in practice at our university. The general arrangements for the recognition ofsuch implementations are outlined in the relevant section of our Education and Examination Regulations, Rules & Regulations for Graduate Programmes and that of Regulations for Lateral Transfer of Students.

Graduates of the Special Education Teaching Program can do Special Education Teaching at all Public and Private Education institutions, Guidance Research Centers, Schools at all grades, and Rehabilitation Centers affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. Graduates have the opportunity to continue their postgraduate education and improve themselves.

The students graduating from this program may apply to second cycle programs.