EDU4450 Interdisciplinary Special Education Methods Course
This course focuses on effective teaching and learning planning and strategies for students with disabilities. It emphasizes high leverage practices (HLPs) as a researched based framework to address specific content areas. Pre-service teachers also learn to consider families, learning environments, cultural, linguistic and socioeconomic factors in addition to student abilities; in their selection and use of appropriate teaching and learning strategies. EDU 4040 (for Elementary Education & Special Education majors) and EDU 4440 will be taken with this course.
Prerequisite
EDU 3420 and EDU 3540; EDU 4040 for Elementary Education & Special Education majors; admission to teacher education; student teaching application or permission from Director of Teacher Education.
Middle Grades & Special Education majors should apply to the department chair for a waiver of the EDU 4040 prerequisite.
This course will usually be taken in the fall of the senior year.
Corequisite
EDU 4440; EDU 4045
Course Outcomes
- Collaborate with professionals to increase student success
- Collaborate with families to support student learning and secure needed services
- Use multiple sources of information to develop a comprehensive understanding of a student’s strengths
and needs - Establish a consistent, organized, and respectful learning environment
- Teach social behaviors
- Identify and prioritize long- and short-term learning goals
- Systematically design instruction toward a specific learning goal
- Adapt curriculum tasks and materials for special learning goals
- Teach cognitive and metacognitive strategies to support learning and independence
- Provide scaffolded supports
- Use explicit instruction
- Use strategies to promote active student engagement
- Use assistive and instructional technologies