ABOUT THE COURSE

The B.Ed. Special Education is a two-year (4 Semester) Full-Time programme aimed at developing teachers for children with disabilities for various settings. The B.Ed. Special Education (Intellectual Disability) course will prepare human resources to enable them to acquire knowledge and develop competencies and skills to impart education and training effectively to all children including children with special needs especially in the area of mental retardation. This programme is approved by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) and is aimed at training students to teach mentally retarded children in both normal and special schools. The number of seats to the B. Ed. Special Education Course shall be 30. The selection of candidates shall be made on the basis of academic merit in the qualifying examination or as prescribed by the competent authority from time to time. The Degree shall be awarded to the successful candidates by the University of Jammu. However, the Marks Certificates, Provisional Certificates and Migration Certificates shall be issued by the College.

PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES

1) To enable the teacher trainees to understand the concept of disability, inclusive education, the discipline of education and mainstreaming of the differently-abled children in the field of mental retardation.

2) To make the teacher trainees understand how differently-abled children learn and develop, how they differ in their approaches to learning due to their disabilities and create learning opportunities that are beneficial to their diverse learning needs and context.

3) To develop the skills of teacher trainees to plan special learning experiences in both curricular and co-curricular activities in and outside the class room which are based on the existing learning difficulties faced by the differently-abled persons to achieve the objectives of the curriculum.

4) To enable the teacher trainees to understand and use formal and informal assessment strategies to identify, evaluate and educate differently-abled persons and work towards their rehabilitation in the society.

5) To identify the special needs of children with disabilities and develop confidence in them to realize their potential and abilities to live with self-respect, dignity and freedom.

6) To develop skills and competencies of the teacher trainees to cater to the needs of the children with mental retardation and disabilities in general and in a special class settings in particular in cognitive, affective and skill domains.

7) To equip trainees with various techniques of teaching children with mental retardation associated with additional disabilities in special and inclusive setup.