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Special Education
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Physical & Health Disabilities |
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This course is designed to provide you with up-to-date information on the needs of the students in your school who have experienced periods of poor health or physical adversity. This course provides you an understanding of how students' illnesses or disabling conditions affect their everyday lives. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent. |
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Characteristics of Students with Learning and Behavior Problems |
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A study of definitions, identification, assessment, characteristics, educational strategies, and program models for children and youth with learning disabilities and/or emotional/behavior disorders. |
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Functional Curriculum and Assessment |
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The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of individuals with developmental disabilities as well as a functional, life-skills orientation to assessment and curriculum that involves both academic and life skills instruction. Students will perform both informal and formal assessment, write an assessment report, and develop curriculum which allows for integration of students with identified cognitive impairments. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent. |
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Communication Programming for Persons with Severe Disabilities |
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This course covers issues related to communication program and decision-making models for communication programming for individuals with severe disabilities. The emphasis is on assessing an individual's communication skills, selecting appropriate components for the communication system and planning intervention strategies. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent. |
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Assessment Strategies |
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Assessment of scholastic achievement and aptitude, social behavior, and instructional effectiveness through the use of norm referenced individualized test instruments and informal instructor designed procedures. Course includes report writing, establishment of objectives, participation in the development of IEPs, and review of basic statistical and measurement concepts. |
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Secondary Practicum: Mild Disabilities |
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Directed practicum experience in secondary level special education resource room setting. 225 hours field experience. SPED 564 is to be taken concurrently. Concurrent course substitutions require instructor consent. |
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Secondary Practicum: Developmental Disabilities |
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Directed practicum experience in secondary level special education resource room setting. Students will spend approximately 15 hours per week in schools. |
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Early/Elementary Special Education Practicum |
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Advanced practicum when adding a Special Education license to an existing teacher license and/or degree in education. Requires application of current MN Board of Teaching standards in licensure specific areas (Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE), Developmental Disabilities (DD), Physical/Health Disabilities (P/HD), Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (E/BD), and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in specific tasks related to each standard to include infants, toddlers and preschoolers and/or K-6 students in elementary Special Education programs. |
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Infant/Interagency Practicum |
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Advanced practicum with infants and toddlers with disabilities from education, health, and social services perspectives in home and clinical settings. |
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Middle School Special Education Practicum |
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Advanced practicum when adding a Special Education license to an existing teaching license and/or degree in education. Requires application of current MN Board of Teaching standards in licensure specific areas Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE), Developmental Disabilities (DD), Physical/Health Disabilities (P/HD), Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (E/BD), and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in specific tasks related to each standard as relevant to students in Middle School Special Education programs. |
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Practicum in Physical and Health Disabilities |
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Directed practicum in a public school elementary or secondary setting for pupils with physical/health disabilities. Students will spend 225 hours in schools. |
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Secondary Special Education Practicum |
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SPED 567S is the advanced practicum when adding a Special Education license to an existing teaching license and/or degree in education. Requires application of current MN Board of Teaching standards in licensure specific areas (Developmental Disabilities (DD), Physical/Health Disabilities (P/HD), Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (E/BD), and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in specific tasks related to each standard as relevant to students in High School Special Education programs. |
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SLD Middle/Secondary Competency Based Field Experience |
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Directed student teaching at the secondary level in special education SLD Program. Students will spend the equivalent of four weeks, full time in a middle school or secondary setting. Prerequisite or concurrent course substitutions require instructor consent of the SLD licensure coordinator. |
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E/BD Middle/Secondary Competency Based Field Experience |
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Directed student teaching at the secondary level in special education E/BD Program. Students will spend the equivalent of four weeks, full time in a middle school or secondary setting. Prerequisite or concurrent course substitutions require instructor consent of the E/BD licensure coordinator. |
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DD Middle/Secondary (Severe) Competency Based Field Experience |
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Directed student teaching at the secondary level in special education DD Program for students with severe developmental disabilities. Students will spend the equivalent of four weeks, full time in a middle school or secondary setting. Prerequisite or concurrent course substitutions require instructor consent of the DD licensure coordinator. |
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Student Teaching II: ECSE |
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Directed student teaching experience in an ECSE program. Students will spend 200-300 hours in schools. Prerequisite substitutions require the approval of the ECSE licensure coordinator. |
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Student Teaching II: Physical and Health Disabilities |
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A second student teaching experience in a public school elementary or secondary setting for pupils with physical and health disabilities. Students will spend 200-300 hours in schools. Prerequisite substitutions require the approval of the P/HD licensure coordinator. |
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Secondary Services & Transitional Planning |
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Transitional planning for secondary students with disabilities including transitional assessment, programming and planning based on individual cognitive, affective and behavioral characteristics will be covered in depth in this course. Students will also acquire knowledge of post-secondary service options and funding sources. |
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Behavior and Environment Management |
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Application of learning theory and applied behavior analysis to teaching and to the problem of altering maladaptive behavior. Specific variables related to classroom and community based instruction of individuals with a variety of learning characteristics are included. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent. |
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Informal Assessment/Teaching Strategies:Students with Learning Disabilities |
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Informal assessment techniques and teaching strategies across the core content areas and in social skills for elementary and secondary students with specific learning disabilities. Prerequisite substitutions require instructor consent. |
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