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SPE 1101 - Special Education as a Profession Credits: 1 hr
This course is designed to provide prospective Special Education teachers with an introductory overview and broad knowledge base of the special education field. Emphasis is placed on students exploring various exceptionalities and working with a special education teacher. Field experience requires interactions with students with disabilities.
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SPE 2310 - Introduction to Exceptional Individuals Credits: 3 hrs
This course explores the characteristics of individuals with special needs, with a focus on the historical and the legal aspects. Other topical issues, relative to Special Education, such as: stereotypes and prejudges against individuals with disabilities, recognizing myths and misconceptions of individuals with disabilities, will also be explored. Additionally, students will complete a service-learning project designed to improve the lives of individuals with exceptionalities. General Education Outcome: Critical Thinking; Area of Knowledge: Social and Behavioral Science; Curricular Theme: Civic Knowledge
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SPE 2312 - Transition Planning and Service Delivery for Students with Moderate Disabilities Credits: 3 hrs
This course is designed to introduce students to research validated approaches to planning and implementing successful transition experiences for students with moderate disabilities. Students learn techniques to foster self-determination, strategies and techniques used to transition individuals with disabilities into and out of school and post-school environments, and mechanisms to incorporate cultural and linguistic issues in transition programs. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with other educational and community agencies involved in the transition process. Offered spring only. Field experience required. SPE 2310
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SPE 3200 - Exceptional Children in the Regular Classroom Credits: 2 hrs
This course explores techniques designed to aid prospective regular and special education teachers in working with children with disabilities who are mainstreamed into regular schools and classrooms at the elementary and secondary levels. The course covers a range of topics including issues in special education inclusion, educational assessment, characteristics of mainstreamed students, cultural diversity and curricula modifications and adaptations. Offered spring, summer, fall Prerequisite or co-requisite: MAT 1311 or higher.
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SPE 3302 - Methods for Teaching Mathematics to Students with Special Needs Credits: 3 hrs
This course is designed to prepare candidates to teach mathematics to children in grades K-12 with disabilities. Candidates wil learn techniques for teaching students who experience a particular ser of difficulties in mathematics. Offered spring only. hours. Prerequisite(s): SPE 2310
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SPE 3310 - Classroom Management for the Exceptional Child Credits: 3 hrs
This course will address social and behavioral problems frequently observed by teachers. The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a variety of discipline models, procedures, and constructs that will empower educators to move from a singular management system to a more compressive approach in handling moderate to severe behavioral problems. Offered fall only. Prerequisite(s): SPE 2310
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SPE 3320 - Problems & Characteristics of Learning Disabled Children Credits: 3 hrs
This course examines behavioral, emotional, physical, and learning characteristics of children with learning disabilities. Offered fall only. Prerequisite(s): SPE 2310 or SPE 3200
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SPE 3322 - Parent, School, and Community Relations Credits: 3
This course is devoted to the study of the major principles upon which effective home, school-community relations are based. It also emphasizes the ways in which parents and teachers may make effective use of community agencies whose activities may have a beneficial effect upon the development of children. This course emphasizes techniques used in parental interviews, conferences and referrals by school personnel with parents of children with and without disabilities, and strategies practiced by agencies that work with families. Emphasis is placed on working with culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families. Offered fall, spring, and summer
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SPE 3323 - Language and Communication Disorders Credits: 3 hrs
The general objective of the course is to develop within the student the competencies necessary to identify the types of communication disorders and problems that may occur in the school-age population and to identify the materials and techniques that can be utilized within the classroom to remediate communication disorders. Offerred spring only.
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SPE 3332 - Parent, School, and Community Relations Credits: 3 hrs
This course is devoted to the study of the major principles upon which effective school-community relationships are based. It also emphasizes the ways in which parents and teachers may make effective use of community agencies that may have a beneficial effect upon the development of children. This course emphasizes techniques used in parental interviews, conferences and referrals by school personnel with parents of children with and without disabilities, and strategies practiced by agencies working with families.
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SPE 3335 - Problems and Characteristics of Students with Behavior Problems Credits: 3 hrs
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of behavioral and emotional disabilities including etiology, definitions, theory, and teaching strategies. In addition, this course enables pre-service and in service teachers to identify the problems and characteristics of students with disabilities who have behavioral issues, discuss and create appropriate intervention procedures (BIP, PBA, PBIS), analyze the policies and practices that assist teachers to develop and maintain positive learning environments for all students, and plan and implement appropriate instruction. Emphasis is placed on strategies for assessing and teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students who exhibit behavior problems. Field experience required. Offered spring only Prerequisite(s): SPE 2310
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SPE 3336 - Methods of Enhancing Reading Skills for Student with Exceptional Needs Credits: 3 hrs
In this course students become familiar with research-validated practices on effective instructional techniques for children with exceptional learning needs. Candidates will learn how to apply specific methods that involve explicit, systematic, and intensive instruction to help children with learning difficulties acquire foundational skills in reading, language arts, and writing. Students will learn to use curriculum-based assessments as a basis for planning, monitoring, and modifying instruction. This course requires a practicum. Offered spring only Prerequisite(s): SPE 2310
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SPE 4321 - Assessment and Remediation for Exceptional Students Credits: 3 hrs
This course is designed for students to gain an understanding of the assessment process and how it guides instructional decisions about what we teach, how we teach, when we teach, how much we teach, etc. The course addresses three major areas: (1) standardized tests and informal strategies, how to prepare for and conduct assessments, and how to select tests and strategies for assessing academic achievment, specific academic areas, and learning aptitude are described, and (3) ways to interpret and use assessment data are addressed. This course requires a practicum. Offered fall only. Prerequisite(s): Admitted to Teacher Education
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SPE 4323 - Instructional Methods in the General Curriculum in Special Education Credits: 3 hrs
This course focuses on effective teaching and learning strategies for adolescents with mild to moderate learning needs that are based on research validated practices. Special emphasis is placed on teaching strategies that reflect a cognitive/metacognitve instructional approach to learning. Teacher candidates learn to consider learning environments, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic factors in addition to student abilities in their selection and use of strategies. This course requires a practicum. Offered fall only. Prerequisite(s): Admitted to Teacher Education.
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