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Childhood & Special Education Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Childhood & Special Education via distance learning
This program creates a bridge between the worlds of child care and early education and preprimary and primary programs. Ideas are effectively presented and designed to give students a cohesive view of the what, why, and how of developmentally appropriate practices. It addresses various aspects (age, individual, social and cultural) of adaptation. It is designed for current and future early childhood professionals who work with children aged three to twelve. Also, this program covers the characteristics of students with special needs, the latest assistive technologies, and the new definitions and classifications of developmental challenges.
Academic Supervisor : Samuel Murinda
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Childhood & Special Education Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Childhood & Special Education.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Education & Pedagogy - Educational Administration - Educational Psychology - Educational Technology - ELT English Language Teaching - Library & Data Management .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Childhood & Special Education Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Childhood & Special Education via distance learning = 42 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Childhood & Special Education Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Childhood & Special Education via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Educational Psychology.
Master's Degree - Childhood & Special Education Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Childhood & Special Education via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Educational Psychology. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Childhood & Special Education Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Childhood & Special Education via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Educational Psychology. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Childhood & Special Education Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Early Child Care
This course presents the developmental needs of children from birth to age five. It shows how to support children’s physical development, encourage cognitive learning and the development of communication skills, and enhance creative expression. It considers different program models and instructional strategies.
Academic Supervisor: Samuel Murinda
Child Education: Learning
This course shows how to ensure the safety and health of children in early childhood programs, and to establish developmentally appropriate learning environments for young children from birth to age five. It examines avenues of ongoing observation, improvement, and development for teachers and caregivers of young children.
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Child Education: Family
This course presents how to support the social and emotional development of young children and provide positive guidance. It explores ways to work effectively with families, and develop program management skills related to observing children and delivering appropriate curriculum.
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Child Observation & Guidance
This course provides guidance to observe children in structured and unstructured situations, to record these observations, and how to use them to assess the strengths and needs of individual children. Guidelines include how to properly conduct observations, keep records, and assess data for curriculum planning.
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Children with Special Needs
This course deals with the characteristics of learners with special needs, as well as some of the latest assisting technologies, and new definition and classification system for mental retardation. It explores child's developmental readiness, learning styles, and social-emotional needs. It shows ways of adapting the classroom to meet the needs of children with special requirements.
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Multilingual Children
This course discusses how to support children’s native languages as they transition into the acquisition of a second language. It explores the role of culture, home, and classroom contexts in the acquisition and development of language. It examines home, school, and community connections to multilingual children education.
Academic Supervisor: Sara Hejazi
Child Development: Language, Math & Science
This course explores ways in which children; starting from infancy; acquire language, develop the basis of literacy, and come to understand their social world. It also focuses on the ways in which children construct knowledge through play and exploration, and ways of helping children develop early math concepts, engage in scientific explorations, and engage in creative problem solving.
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Learning & Memory Development
This course reviews the principles of learning and memory by examining various learning theories, memory research, perception, information processing, and problem-solving. How are memories stored and retrieved? How is sensory input converted to subjective perception? Is the brain a general-purpose learning machine or a toolbox of innate, specialized processors?
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Cognitive Development
This course focuses on the theories and models of learning as applied to the fields of education, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. It reviews different theoretical orientations to learning and memory, metacognition, analogy, language acquisition, reading, writing, mathematics, concept learning, skill acquisition, and self regulated learning.
Academic Supervisor: Philomena Wavinya Ndambuki
Disabilities & Assistive Technology
This course is designed to help professionals in schools understand assistive technology for students with disabilities. It focuses on students with mild mental handicaps, learning disabilities, or emotional disturbances. It also explains teaching strategies for students with disabilities including: autism, brain injury, deafness, blindness, orthopedic and other health impairments, and multiple handicaps.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Special Education
This course provides a framework for understanding current research in the area of curriculum and methods of teaching students with exceptionalities, with emphasis on portfolio assessment and learning styles. It examines curriculum models and teaching techniques for adapting lessons to students with exceptionalities.
Academic Supervisor: Samuel Murinda
Children Education Programs
This course shows the know-how required in the operation and management of an early care and education program. It deals with organizational management, financial, legal and ethical issues, establishing operational systems, and programming for children and families.
Academic Supervisor: Samuel Murinda
Gifted & Talented Children
This course examines the various theories of intelligence in relation to talented students. Emphasis is on the following: service delivery models, student selection, curriculum development, program implementation, meeting the social and emotional needs of talented students, program evaluation, and creativity and talent development.
Academic Supervisor: Samuel Murinda
Childhood Education
This course creates a bridge between the worlds of child care and early education, as well as between preprimary and primary programs. The effective ideas presented are designed to give students a cohesive view of the what, why, and how of developmentally appropriate practices. It addresses principles of age-appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social and cultural appropriateness.
Academic Supervisor: Samuel Murinda
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Childhood & Special Education Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABPEE - Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação Especial
ABRAPEC - Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências
ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
ACEI - Association for Chilhood Education International
AEST - Asociación Española para Superdotados y con Talento
AFOS - Association for the Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition
AMEE - Asociación Mundial de Educación Especial
ANPEIP - Association Nationale Pour les Enfants Intellectuellement Précoces
EFP - European Forum of Psychomotricity
FCSN - Federation for Children with Special Needs
FFPPEA - Fédération Française de Psychothérapie Psychanalytique pour l’Enfant et l’Adolescent
IACEP - International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology
ISIS - International Society on Infant Studies
NASET - National Association of Special Education Teachers
NPIA - Nature Pedagogy International Association
SRCD - Society for Research in Child Development
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Admission requirements - Childhood & Special Education
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Childhood & Special Education Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Childhood & Special Education Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Childhood & Special Education Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
