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techniques and areas associated with the student teaching process
with students with mild/moderate disabilities at the preschool through
high school levels
SPED 5012 LEADERSHIP AND POLICY IN SPECIAL EDUCA-
TION Organizational and educational leadership in special education
within the context of evidence-based practices for promoting a free
appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. Emphasis
on maintaining high expectations for self, staff, and individuals
with exceptional learning needs and mentoring teacher candidates,
newly certified teachers and other colleagues.
SPED 5023 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL
IN SPEC EDUC Knowledge of cognitive science, learning theory, and
instructional technologies to improve instructional programs and the
continuum of program options and services to ensure the appropriate
instructional supports for individuals with exceptional learning needs.
SPED 5033 RESEARCH, INQUIRY, AND EVIDENCE-BASED
PRACTICE Design and implementation of analysis and review of
research to examine the effectiveness of instructional practices and
methods for assessing and evaluating individuals and programs to
identify and validate evidence-based practices.
SPED 5043 STUDENT AND PROGRAM ASSESSMENT AND
EVALUATION Process and interpretation of assessments for determining
eligibility for special education and methods and strategies
for assessing and evaluating students’ performance and success in
general education curriculum.
SPED 5053 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICAL
PRACTICE Ethical and professional practice standards and the
professional special educator’s multiple roles and complex situations
across wide age and developmental ranges. Participation in learning
communities and professional activities that benefit individuals with
ELN, their families, colleagues, and the documentation and evaluation
of professional growth through the development of the professional
portfolio for graduate-level special educators.
SPED 5063 COUNSELING, COLLABORATION, AND CO-
TEACHING Effective strategies for collaboration with families, other
educators, related service providers, and personnel from community
agencies in culturally responsive ways to promote and advocate the
learning and well being of individuals with ELN across a wide range
of settings and a range of different learning experiences.
SPED 5112 ADVANCED FOUNDATIONS OF SPECIAL EDU-
CATION Philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of special
education. Introduction to roles and responsibilities of the special
educator, and legal and ethical requirements of the profession. Theoretical
perspectives related to the nature and needs of persons with
disabilities and how complex.
SPED 5123 DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTER & INDIVIDUAL
LEARN DIFFEREC The similarities and differences in human development
and the characteristics between and among individuals
with and without exceptional learning needs and how exceptional
conditions can interact with the domains of human development and
can impact families, as well as the individual’s ability to learn, interact
socially, and live as fulfilled contributing members of the community.
SPED 5143 ADV INSTRUCT STRAT FOR INDIVID W MILD/
MOD DISABIL Evidence-based instructional strategies to individualize
instruction for individuals with ELN and how to select, adapt, and
use these instructional strategies to promote challenging learning
results in general and special curricula and to appropriately modify
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learning environments for individuals with ELN. Emphasis on the
development, maintenance, and generalization of knowledge and
skills across environments, settings, and the lifespan.
SPED 5152 LEARNING ENVIORNMENTS AND SOCIAL IN-
TERACTIONS Learning environments for individuals with ELN that
foster cultural understanding, safety and emotional well being, positive
interactions, and active engagement of individuals with ELN.
SPED 5162 DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS Typical
and atypical language development, the ways in which exceptional
conditions can interact with an individual’s experience with and use
of language, and individualized strategies to enhance language development
and teach communication skills to individuals with ELN.
SPED 5233 SPECIAL EDUCATION LAW This course will deal
extensively with federal/state legislation and case laws and regulations
and with administrative and civil court actions in the determination of
the status of services to children with disabilities. The role of executive,
legislative and judicial bodies will be examined vis-a-vis legal,
ethical, and procedural parameters that provide direction for school
practitioners and policy makers.
SPED 5314 EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION A
study of the history, philosophy, methods, and theories for educating
the young child with disabilities from birth through eight years with
particular emphasis on using developmental knowledge of young
children’s characteristics and needs to create effective learning environments.
SPED 5443 DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIATION OF MATH-
RELATED DEFICITS Focus on cognitive math-related deficits in
processing, sequencing, and memory and the mathematics specialist’s
role in pre-assessment. Curriculum-based assessment and
teacher-administered measures will be utilized to determine their role
in formulating multiple remediation strategies. Technology use as an
aid to remediation will be demonstrated.
STATISTICS (STAT)
STAT 2153 STATISTICAL METHODS Fundamental concepts
of probability, random variables and basic distributions, sample means
and variances, statistical inference for means including both large
sample theory and small sample theory, linear regression and correlation,
use of commercial software statistical packages. (Prerequisite:
MATH 1513)
STAT 3363 #PROBABILITY THEORY Sets, probability in finite
and infinite spaces, counting methods, random variables, probability
distributions, game theory. (Prerequisite: MATH 2215)
STAT 4353 #MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS Design of experiments
and investigations, statistical inference, probability and
combinational methods, discrete and continuous distributions, expected
values, sampling, point estimation. (Prerequisite: MATH 2215)
STAT 4463 #PROBABILITY THEORY II Probability distributions,
jointly distributed random variables, multinomial probability laws,
moment-generating functions, limit theorems, stochastic processes.
(Prerequisite: STAT 3363 or STAT 4353)
STAT 4970 SPECIAL STUDIES
STAT 4980 SEMINAR