PRELIMINARY LEVEL I EDUCATION SPECIALIST: Moderate/Severe Disabilities with Multiple or Single Subject Credential

Lead Faculty: Dr. Mary-Lynn Tatman Ferguson

(780-357) (-364 B Single) (-365 B Multiple)

(27 courses; 102.0 quarter units TED)

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate competence in the application of research methods used with students with moderate/severe disabilities, including critiquing and synthesizing current peer-reviewed educational literature.
2. Demonstrate competence in designing instruction to meet the needs of students with moderate/severe disabilities, including functional skills and accessing the general curriculum.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of federal and state laws, legislation, and judicial decisions regarding exceptional individuals.
4. Demonstrate competence in Positive Behavior Support, including Functional Analysis of Behavior (FBA).
5. Demonstrate expertise in the use of adaptive and augmentative technology used with students with moderate/severe disabilities.
6. Develop skills to become a change agent, advocate for students with moderate/severe disabilities, and assist moderate/severe students in becoming self-determined.
7. Demonstrate appropriate standards of conduct; practice within legal and ethical parameters.
8. Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to actively and creatively support all students in learning.
9. Demonstrate competence in the ability to apply research methods used with students with moderate/severe disabilities, including professional writing, and the use of technology for research.

Requirements

• ILD 610 Introductory Health Ed: K-12
• EDT 608 Technology in the Classroom

Field experience courses must be taken at the beginning of the program and may be taken concurrently with other courses.
• TED 601 Teaching and Credentialing
• EXC 602A Field Experience: Spc Ed
• EXC 602B Fld Exper: Inclusive Settings
• EXC 604 Excep & Diversity in Clsrm
• TED 615 The Foundations of Education
• TED 611 Educational Psychology
• EXC 620 Positive Behavior Support
• EXC 630 Assess/Instr Planning in SpEd
• TED 621A Lang. Dev. Methods: Elem. Sch.
OR
• TED 623 Lang. Dev. Methods: Secondary
• TED 621B Reading/Lang. Arts Methods
• EXC 650 Consultation and Collaboration

• TED 622A Curr-Assess-Inst:Soc.St/PE/Art
• TED 622B Curr-Assess-Inst:Math&Science

• TED 632 Content Area Curriculum
• TED 625B Instruction and Classroom Mana

Please see advanced specialization and clinical practice requirements under Education Specialist in the School of Education’s Credential Programs section of the catalog.
• EXC 644 Reading Methods for Special Ed
• EXC 644A Field Study: Reading and Langu
• EXC 665 Inst Lrners Mod/Svr Disabs
• EXC 665A Field Stdy: Mod/Severe Disabls
• EXC 615 Tech for Persons w/ Disab.
• EXC 615A Fld Study: Technology
• TED 629 Student Teaching Seminar
• TED 630A Student Teaching I
• TED 630B Student Teaching
• EXC 603A Supervised Teaching Seminar
• EXC 690A Std. Teaching Mod/Severe
• EXC 690B Std Teaching Mod/Severe
Please see completion requirements under Education Specialist in the School of Education’s Credential Programs section of the catalog.

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