Special Educational NeedsMaster's degree

The subjects focus on professional practice and prioritise the use of active and participative methodologies, such as:

• Workshops
• Work in small groups
• Large group discussions
• Video and case analysis

For the completion of academic work, practicum reports or Master’s Final Projects, students are provided with tutoring and monitoring services, preferably in the form of personal interviews or via email.

The core elements of the practicums are:

•  Active participation in the different schools, to carry out activities such as:

- Psycho-pedagogical assessment of the different educational needs.
- Development and implementation of individual or group intervention programmes.
- Access to and knowledge of community resources that promote the quality of life, educational and social inclusion of people with special educational needs.
- Analysis of the organisation, methodology and actions that facilitate progress towards a more inclusive school.

•  Critical thinking on the practicum. Master's students are provided with the double tutorial support of at least one formally appointed on-site supervisor from the placement centre and one of the University's tutors. With their help the student must reflect on his or her own practicums, expressing his or her conclusions in two reports, one for each practicum.

Assessment for this programme is continuous and training-oriented. It consists of three main areas:

• Students must complete nine academic assignments during the academic year, which are assessed by their tutor in a personal interview. These marks, together with course attendance, form the basis for assigning the marks for the subjects Educational Inclusion and Psychopedagogical Approach to Specific Difficulties. The assessment of these nine assignments takes place as the student submits them, from October to May.
• In the subject of Practicums in Special Educational Needs, marks are awarded on the basis of the student's self-assessment, that of the school on-site supervisor and the academic tutor. The lecturer in charge of the practicum makes a visit to interview the on-site supervisor from the school. The evaluation and grading of the two practicums that make up this subject are carried out upon their completion.
• The mark for the Master's Final Project is based defence of the project before an examining board formed by three professors from the Master's faculty (70% of the grade) and a report from the programme directors in which the student's overall academic achievement is included (30% of the grade).

Two exams are held for the subjects: first sit and resit . The first one takes place in February and the second one in July, except in the case of the Master's Final Project, for which the first sit is in July and the resit in September.