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Department of Education
that will allow them to design and execute
educational plans tailored specifically to
fulfill the needs of each individual student in
the classroom. The course is geared toward
the managing of day-to-day problems as they
arise in the school setting. Limitations of the
behavioural model are also addressed.
EDU875 Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties
[3-0, 3 cr.]
This umbrella course focuses on reading
difficulties, the main challenge that students
with reading difficulties face, and sheds
particular light on the most common of reading
disorders: dyslexia. Students will also be
required to work closely with dyslexic children,
as part of course objectives, to gain more
practical knowledge about dyslexia.
EDU876 Teaching Students with LD in the
Regular Classroom [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course investigates the foundations of
effective teaching for students with learning
difficulties. It proposes evidence-based
learning-teaching approaches, and materials
that are effective in educating learningdisabled,
and mildly developmentally delayed
students in the areas of reading, spelling,
writing and mathematics.
EDU877 Special Education Practicum
[3-0, 3 cr.]
This course deals with the applied aspect of
the Special Education emphasis. Students
will be asked to complete an internship in a
school that caters to students with learning
difficulties. Students will first learn the
basics of mainstreaming students, planning
individualized educational plans, modifying the
curriculum, developing instructional materials,
and teaching learning disabled, and delayed,
students, one-on-one, and in groups, using a
variety of tailor-made remedial strategies, to
help them reach their instructional objectives.
EDU883 Counseling Theories and Techniques
[3-0, 3 cr.] *
This course emphasizes counseling and
consultation theories, and presents
philosophical underpinnings of theories of
personality, and those incorporated into
counseling practice. It is an overview of the
field, with emphasis on understanding the
nature of counseling, and the counselor’s
role in a school setting. Basics of interviewing
skills, and counseling assessment techniques,
are presented, as well counseling special
needs students, and relevant ethical issues,
are discussed.
*Currently frozen
EDU885 Counseling Children and
Adolescents in School Setting [3-0, 3 cr.] *
This course covers the examination of models
of therapeutic interventions from infancy to
adolescence. Students become familiar with
the ways of adapting appropriate interventions
within the local culture e.g., play therapy and
token economy with children, and the use
of cognitive and emotional therapies with
adolescents. In addition, this course will
examine the basic developmental issues
from infancy to adolescence that under-gird
counseling practice. Typical psychosocial tasks
are explored, with special consideration for
counseling in a school context.
*Currently frozen
EDU887 Counseling Practicum [3-0, 3 cr.] *
This course is a semester of supervised
counseling practice in a school setting,
consistent with the student’s professional
goals. This pre-professional experience
allows students to implement counseling
strategies while receiving structured and
intensive feedback about their strengths, and
weaknesses. Students will meet with LAU
Faculty for weekly seminar classes throughout
the practicum.
*Currently frozen
EDU888 Topics in Education [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course deals with the current issues,
and concerns, in education. It is alternatively
taught by various Faculty to cover a wide range
of specialty areas.
EDU898 Project in Education [3 cr.]
This course entails producing an original
contribution in the students’ area of specialty,
typically in the form of educational materials
(educational kit, curriculum or sections of a
curriculum, guidebooks, etc.) or a field study
that is smaller in scale than a thesis.
EDU899 Thesis in Education [6 cr.]
This course entails producing an original
contribution in the students’ specialty
domain. It may be field research, qualitative or
quantitative, descriptive or experimental, case
study, document analysis, or action research.
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