The request to revise the Special Education Graduate General Curriculum Initial Licensure Program

Date: May 6, 2011
To: College of Education
From: Clarence Greene, Faculty Governance Assistant
Approved On: April 21, 2011
Implementation Date: 2011

Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.

Summary

The Special Education and Child Development Department proposes the revisioning of the graduate Special Education General Curriculum Initial Licensure Graduate Certificate Program by aligning course curriculum to the North Carolina State Board of Education Standards for Teacher Education and NCATE standards. The graduate certificate program maintains our 27-hour course requirement for the Graduate Certificate Program in Special Education. Additions to the graduate certificate program include SPED 5276 Teaching Reading to Secondary Learners with Special Needs (student make take either SPED 5275 Teaching Reading to Elementary Learners with Special Needs or SPED 5276 Teaching Reading to Secondary Learners with Special Needs), and SPED 5279 Content Area Instruction for Students With Special Needs. Curricular changes include the alignment of course content with new standards, judicial placement of candidate assessment measures and evidences, integration of prerequisite skills (e.g., use of search engines for Topical Paper (E2), restructure of the clinical experience requirements, and elimination of duplication of standards across course outlines. SPED 6690 Consultation and Collaboration was deleted from the 27-hour course sequence and moved to the advanced licensure sequence.

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SPED 5276. Teaching Reading to Middle and Secondary Learners with Special Needs. (3) Prerequisites: Admittance to M.A.T. (SPED), or M.Ed. (SPED); SPED 5100; SPED 5173; SPED 5175. This course will provide effective remedial and intervention strategies for addressing the needs of middle and secondary students with disabilities and diverse learning needs. Assessment and application of instructional strategies are included in the course. Clinical field experience hours required. (Fall)

SPED 5279. Content-Area Instruction for Students with Special Needs. (3) Prerequisites: Admittance to M. A. T. (SPED), or M. Ed. (SPED); SPED 5100; SPED 5173; SPED 5175; SPED 5272; SPED 5275 or SPED 5276; SPED 5277. This course will provide strategies for collaborative instruction, instructionally relevant use of computer-based technology, and strategic instruction to improve access of students with disabilities in the general curriculum with an emphasis on content-area instruction at the middle and secondary levels: English, science, social studies, and mathematics. Application of instructional strategies are included in the course. Clinical field experience hours required.(Fall, Spring)