SPED 3300 - Instructional Foundations for Special Education

(4) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Educator Preparation
Co-requisite: SPED 3100
Designed to build a comprehensive understanding of the interaction among the school, the curriculum, and the student, this course provides candidates with an in-depth examination of teaching special education in diverse settings. Various teaching models and research-based strategies will be investigated. Candidates will learn about current educational trends, issues, policies, and practices, and their relationships to program planning, curriculum, instruction, and assessment of students with disabilities. Candidates will examine national, state, and local content standards in order to plan lessons, which meet the needs of the special education student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP). In the field, candidates will observe the process of curriculum and unit development and the use of educational frameworks, such as the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), that promote multiple approaches for meeting the needs of students with disabilities.