Inclusion of Students with Disabilities: Grades 6-12
EDSE 4030E/6030E
3 hours
Inclusion of Students with Disabilities: Grades 6-12
Course Description
Students with disabilities grades 6 through 12, including causes and characteristics. Topics include legal requirements, co-teaching, supporting students with disabilities in middle and high school classes, response to intervention, evidence-based instructional strategies, IEP process, family partnerships, current issues, and providing students with disabilities access to state standards through accommodations.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students will complete all requirements assigned to
undergraduates. In addition, they will read a book and complete
a written review. They will have differentiated examinations
requiring more rigor and more synthesis than the undergraduates.
They will also complete an in-depth review of a specific method
and determine how it addresses students with special needs in
the middle or high school classroom.
Athena Title
Students Special Needs Gr 6-12
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDSE 4020, EDSE 4020E, EDSE 4030 or EDSE 6020, EDSE 6020E, EDSE 6030
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Undergraduate Prerequisite
Permission of department
Graduate Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Foundations
- Know the models, theories, and philosophies that form the basis for special education practice.
- Know and apply the laws, policies, and ethical principles regarding behavior management.
- Understand the relationship of special education to the organization and function of educational agencies.
- Know the rights and responsibilities of students, parents, teachers, and other professionals, and schools related to exceptional learning needs.
- Be familiar with the issues in definition and identification of individuals with exceptional learning needs, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Knowledgeable about the issues, assurances, and due process rights related to assessment, eligibility, and placement within a continuum of services.
- Understand family systems and the role of families in the educational process.
Development and Characteristics of Learners
- Understand typical and atypical human growth and development.
- Understand the educational implications of characteristics of various exceptionalities.
- Understand the characteristics and effects of the cultural and environmental milieu of the individual with exceptional learning needs and the family.
- Be aware of similarities and differences among individuals with and without exceptional learning needs.
- Be aware of similarities and differences among individuals with exceptional learning needs.
- Understand the effects of various medications on individuals with exceptional learning needs.
Individual Learning Differences
- Understand the effects an exceptional condition(s) can have on an individual’s life.
- Understand the impact of learners’ academic and social abilities, attitudes, interests, and values on instruction.
- Understand differing ways of learning of individuals with exceptional learning needs including those from culturally diverse backgrounds and strategies for addressing these differences.
Instructional Strategies
- Use strategies to facilitate inclusion into various settings.
- Teach individuals to use self-assessment, problem solving, and other cognitive strategies to meet their needs.
- Select, adapt, and use instructional strategies and materials according to the characteristics of the individual with exceptional learning needs.
- Use procedures to increase the individual’s self-awareness, self-management, self-control, self-reliance, and self-esteem.
Learning Environments and Social Interactions
- Know and apply basic classroom management theories and strategies for individuals with exceptional learning needs.
- Know principles of effective management of teaching and learning.
- Aware of teacher attitudes and behaviors that influence behavior of individuals with exceptional learning needs.
- Identify realistic expectations for personal and social behavior in various settings.
- Design learning environments that encourage active participation in individual and group activities.
- Modify the learning environment to manage behaviors.
- Use performance data and information from all stakeholders to make or suggest modification in learning environments.
Instructional Planning
- Identify and prioritize areas of the general curriculum and accommodations for individuals with exceptional learning needs.
- Involve the individual and family in setting instructional goals and monitoring progress.
- Make responsive adjustments to instruction based on continual observations.
Assessment
- Know basic terminology used in assessment.
- Know screening, pre-referral, referral, and classification procedures.
- Administer nonbiased formal and informal assessments.
- Modify individualized assessment strategies.
- Evaluate instruction and monitor progress of individuals with exceptional learning needs.
Collaboration
- Know models and strategies of consultation and collaboration.
- Understand the concerns of families of individuals with exceptional learning needs and strategies to help address these concerns.
- Maintain confidential communication about individuals with exceptional learning needs.
- Use group problem solving skills to develop, implement and evaluate collaborative activities.
- Understand what the Georgia Alternative Assessment is and who participates.
Topical Outline
• History of Special Education
• Special education law
• Families as partners
• Characteristics of high incidence disabilities
• Characteristics of low incidence disabilities
• Response to Intervention (RTI)
• The IEP process
• Collaboration and co-teaching
• Positive behavior support
• Adapting instruction-based on evidence-based practices
• Georgia Alternative Assessment
• Providing students with developmental disabilities access to state and national standards
• Accommodations for students in middle and high school classes
