SPE 591 - Student Teaching: Special Educator Role (1-6)

Catalog Year: 2019-2020

This course provides an extended supervised, full-time field-based experience in the special educator role (10 weeks, 400+ hours in school-based service). Graduate candidates (with a prior certificate in Childhood education) integrate knowledge of development, pedagogy, assessment, and research to provide appropriate special education services to students with diverse disabilities (grades 1-6). Each candidate will develop and demonstrate key competencies for beginning special educators (Council for Exceptional Children) related to program planning, collaboration and management, assessment, curriculum and instruction (including use of technology), managing learning environments and professional development as they relate to delivering effective programs for students with disabilities in typical public schools, including general education classes.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of 21 credits in the MSED-Special Education Program, and concurrent registration in SPE 540.
Offered: Fall and Spring
Credit: 9