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Instruction for Exceptional Learners (EDUC 2260)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
3
Description:
This course emphasizes approaches to working with exceptional learners, including informal assessment, documentation practices and classroom management skills. You will learn prevention and intervention strategies for working with children and youth with special needs in both educational and alternative settings. You will also examine techniques to analyze and manage challenging and disruptive behaviors. Must be taken A-F.
Topical Outline:
1. Accommodations and Modifications for Learning
2. Classroom & Behavioral Management
3. Informal Assessment and Documentation
4. Learning Strategies
5. Positive and Negative Reinforcement
Learning Outcomes:
1. Develop and employ instructional lesson plans and behavior modification practices appropriate for students with particular special needs in a variety of settings
2. Recognize how to assist in accommodating and modifying learning strategies based on learning styles, ability levels, and other individual differences for students with special needs
3. Assess how to assist in implementing behavioral interventions for the individual student and class
4. Administer functional informal assessment activities as directed and effectively document student progress to give useful feedback to teachers
5. Employ learning strategies that support student independence and positive self-esteem
6. Employ appropriate reinforcement in response to various student behaviors
Prerequisites:
Placement into
READ 1300 or completion of
READ 0200 or
ESOL 0052