This course is designed to provide an overview of best practices for creating inclusive settings for families and children (birth-six years) with disabilities, developmental differences, and challenging behaviors.

This course is designed as a preparatory experience to support students during pre-student teaching experiences in a variety of classroom environments. This course integrates prior education coursework, with an emphasis on planning, assessment, and preparation for student teaching. Topics include the process for applying to student teaching, preparation of professional documents, interview skills, assessment, and the development of a portfolio. Clinical experiences on Tuesdays and Thursdays are required.

This course develops content and methods for interdisciplinary instruction and art integration in the elementary and middle school classroom. Critical thinking, problem solving, and experiential approaches are developed through reading, discussion, active participation, planning, and teaching. Students create interdisciplinary lessons that integrate the arts (theater, music, dance, visual arts) and address content area standards. This course fulfills a pre-student teaching experience requirement for licensure and is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program.

Intensive field experience in the pre-K environment. Integrates prior early childhood coursework through the preparation of integrated units designed and delivered in a pre-K environment. Field work is required. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program. Prerequsites: 303, 307, admission to the teacher education program.

This course addresses the principles of corrective and remedial reading instruction. Students explore the nature and causes of reading difficulties and learn about diagnostic instruments and procedures. They learn how to implement strategies for correcting reading disabilities and incorporate computer-aided instruction. A case study is required. Field work is a required component of this course. Prerequisites: 319; admission to the teacher education program.

Assessment serves as a cornerstone of special education, both in terms of eligibility determination and instructional planning. This course will focus on the wide array of assessment methods available for identifying students with disabilities and evaluating their responsiveness to instruction, including norm-referenced tests, criterion-references assessment tasks, curriculum-based assessments and measures, and dynamic assessment.

This course is intended to provide an overview of both the principles that undergrid PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) as a philosophy of practice and the practical applications of PBIS as a proactive approach in promoting optimal behavior across schoolwide, classroom, and individual levels. The reauthorization of IDEA in 2004 clearly mandates the use of PBIS as an evidence-based practice aimed at proactively addressing challenging behavior in students with disabilities.

This course emphasizes the principles, goals, methods, and strategies for teaching mathematics in elementary and middle schools. Topics include integrating math with literacy, differentiation, knowledge and implementation of curriculum, lesson planning, and assessment. This course fulfills a pre-student teaching experience for licensure. Prerequisites: 255, MATH 255 with C or better, admission to the teacher education program.

Assessment serves as a cornerstone of special education, both in terms of eligibility determination and instructional planning. This course will focus on the wide array of assessment methods available for identifying students with disabilities and evaluating their responsiveness to instruction, including norm-referenced tests, criterion-references assessment tasks, curriculum-based assessments and measures, and dynamic assessment. Prerequisite: 290 or PSYC-171, 306 or concurrent.

A study of developmentally appropriate curriculum and assessment practices from birth to age 6 including children with special abilities, disabilities, or developmental differences.