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.

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. Prerequisites: 243, 255, 290; admission to the teacher education program.

This course serves a dual purpose: 1) it focuses on the fundamentals of instructional design and the use of multimedia technology as a teaching and learning strategy that addresses diverse student needs and encourages active participation in learning, 2) it emphasizes technology tools that facilitate communication and collaboration within local and global learning communities as a means of improvising leadership functions and effectively engaging in with others in oline and remote learning.

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. Prerequisites: admission to the teacher education program.

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.

Objectives, content, study, and experience in methods, use of media, including computer applications for science teachers in the elementary and middle school; science laboratory experiences. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program. Prerequisite: 307.

This course emphasizes the principles, goals, methods, and strategies for teaching mathematics in elementary and middle school. 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. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program. Prerequisite: 307.

Methods and materials for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating social studies instruction based on model academic standards. Focused on development of curricula that promote equity, diversity, and social justice. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program. Prerequisite: 307.

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.