Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, candidates will:
- Identify and apply current legal and policy issues surrounding assessment and accountability to legal cases in the field that promote school-based procedures for special education services.
- Explore district needs through a comprehensive self-assessment to enhance inclusive practices in the district.
- Analyze case situations involving complex behavioral challenges; describe inclusive and culturally-responsive supports for student behavior; and recommend changes to school-based policies and procedures that protect the welfare and safety of students and school staff.
- Complete a 50-hour supervised field experience and participate in school-related activities that support development in school leadership.
- Examine the historical contexts and perspectives on severe disability and analyze the current trends and issues in the field of inclusion.
- Become familiar with the area of assessment, diagnosis and evaluation of students with severe or multiple disabilities, from early identification through transition to adulthood.
- Conduct assessment case studies and practice the skills of person-centered IEP planning.
- Become proficient in the area of communication supports for students with severe or multiple disabilities, focusing on full academic and social inclusion in school, home and community.
- Understand how to develop and provide inclusive, standards-based instruction for students with severe or multiple disabilities with complex support needs in the general education setting, with access to the general education curriculum, including working as part of an integrated team.
- Research positive behavioral supports and interventions for students with severe and multiple disabilities and present the findings in a portfolio or manual format.
- Complete a college-supervised practicum (minimum of 50 clock hours) in a setting teaching students with severe or multiple disabilities and conduct an action research project.