20 courses with the subject SPE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
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.
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.
Credits: 3 hrs This course focuses on the special needs of individuals with moderate disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on the areas of teachings strategies, transitional issues and career awareness. The topics of assistive technologies and social and ethical issues surrounding students with moderate disabilities will be discussed.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to introduce prospective general and special education teachers to teach students with disabilities inclusive settings, specifically in the general education classroom. The course provides fundamental information pertaining to special education, including eligibility for services and associated laws, policies, and responsibilities; key strategies to support students with disabilities in the classroom; designing lesson plans to reflect required modifications and individual goals; collaboration with families and key professionals; and understanding how an MTSS framework interacts with special education.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates students to teach mathematics to students with special needs. Pre-service teachers will learn techniques for teaching students who are experiencing difficulties in mathematics. The course meets for three hours per week and 20 clinical laboratory hours.
This course addresses contingency management in a learning situation for the exceptional child. It involves theory and laboratory experiences. (One class hour and two laboratory hours per week.)
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to explore effective classroom management theories and strategies and positive behavior intervention strategies. Emphasis will be given to creating positive learning environments for students who display challenging behavior. Discussions of Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans will be included.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the characteristics of students with high incidence disabilities, with particular emphasis on their behavioral, emotional, and learning characteristics. Additionally, the course will address best practices in instructional planning and delivery of instruction for students with special needs. The course requires field placement hours in a school setting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to provide overview of students with behavior disorders. Emphasis is on the description of the various forms of behavioral disorders and possible causes of BD, as well as procedures and processes for teaching students with emotional and behavior disorders across a variety of classroom and other educational environments.
Credits: 3 hrs The course is designed to provide teacher candidates with an understanding of the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from a variety of relevant sources use for educational and instructional decisions regarding individuals with special needs. The course will cover the appropriate selection, administration, and interpretation of measures in order to identify students for special education. Additionally, it will familiarize the teacher candidate with basic assessment terminologies and principles as well as various tests measuring achievement, aptitude, behavior, and social skills. Current issues in assessment will also be cover, such as response to intervention (RTI) and Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBM), will be covered.
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.
Credits: 3 hrs This graduate level course is designed for individuals preparing to teach in the area of special education (K-12). Teacher candidates will explore a variety of teaching techniques for teaching students with special needs. With special emphasis placed on assisting the struggling student develop both conceptual and procedure knowledge in the area of mathematics. Field placement hours are required.
Understanding Students with High Incident Disabilities is a graduate level course designed for candidates seeking a Master’s degree in education with a concentration in Special Education - General Curriculum. This course further develops students’ understanding of the special education field and targets intellectual, learning, and emotional disabilities.
This graduate level course is designed for candidates seeking a Mastered degree in education with a concentration in Special Education: General Curriculum. This course will enable graduate students to further develop their own understanding of the field of mental, learning, and emotional disabilities. This understanding will expand upon the theoretical models utilized, as well as the implications for developing strategies and techniques for classroom use.
This introductory class will explore the basic concepts and practices of special education and to familiarize students with the characteristics of children who qualify for special programs and services. The course covers a range of topics including issues in special education, inclusion, educational assessment, characteristics of mainstreamed students, multiculturalism, and curricula modifications and adaptations. The course addresses strategies for the development, implementation, and monitoring of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and related instructional planning for exceptional students within the general curriculum, including Pre K-12, students at risk for school failure, students from culturally and linguistically diverse background, and gifted learners
This graduate level course is designed to provide teacher candidates with an understanding of the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from a variety of relevant sources use for educational and instructional decisions regarding individuals with special needs. The course will cover the appropriate selection, administration, and interpretation of measures in order to identify students for special education. Additionally, it will familiarize the teacher candidate with basic assessment terminologies and principles as well as various tests measuring achievement, aptitude, behavior, and social skills. Current issues in assessment will also be cover, such as response to intervention (RTI) and Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBM), will be covered. Students will administer, score, and report the results of assessment measures as well as develop an instructional unit based on the results of their assessment.
Source: Winston-Salem State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
