Study programmes

The study program prepares special educators - teachers - to create equal opportunities for pupils with special educational needs in access to education at the 2nd and 3rd level of schools and to provide adequate support in education to all pupils with respect to their individual educational needs. A graduate of the program Special Education for Lower and Upper Secondary School Teachers - is able to implement innovations into teaching at the 2nd level of elementary schools and upper secondary schools by qualified methodological procedures. As an expert in the field of special educational assessment, a graduate reflects the full spectrum of special educational needs of pupils arising from their disabilities, health disadvantages, social disadvantages, linguistic, ethnic or national differences, or extraordinary talent. The program of Teaching Special Education for the 2nd Stage of Elementary School and Upper Secondary School is characterized by strengthening the interdisciplinary links of special education with general education, didactics and methodology of educational subjects. It contains a combination of theoretical and practical training of the future teacher. It is conceived with regard to the increasing demands on the quality of support of pupils' special educational needs by the teacher and the school. It reflects the inclusive trend in education as well as the renowned traditions of Czech education.