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This course focuses on current special education topics and professional development issues that impact the educator, interactions with students, parents and other professions (including the development of communication and consultation skills). A variety of instructional strategies and methods will be used to promote active inquiry into learning during class time.
This course will investigate the characteristics of the adult learner. Adult learners have traits that set them apart from ‘traditional’ school or college learners. All adults come to courses with a variety and range of experiences, both in terms of their working life and educational backgrounds. This impacts on how and why they participate in learning. Multiples stages of an adult learner’s life will be investigated which will include their perspectives on learning, motivation, and diverse backgrounds.
This course will cover areas concerning the work of curriculum directors, general supervisors, special supervisors, and department heads; study of supervisory methods current plans for staff utilization and use of instructional materials; and stress on evaluation of educational programs and the effects of supervision.
This course provides a survey of current knowledge on individuals with disabilities within the context of human growth and development across the life span. Content includes historical factors, legislation, etiology, characteristics, needs, educational strategies, including existing and emerging technologies, assessment and support services of/for individuals with disabilities ranging from mild, moderate to severe levels of varying disabilities. The course will study the impact of disabilities on academic and social/emotional performances. A 10 hour field experience is required.
Field and clinical experiences provide opportunities for teaching candidates to apply knowledge, skill and dispositions in a variety of settings appropriate to the content and level of each program of study. Field and clinical experiences are approved and completed under the direction of the institution of higher education and cooperating teacher(s).
This course will provide an overview of administrative theory, tools, and technology; educational leadership; legal issues; organizational and community relationships; political structures; and program development, evaluation, and accountability. Duties of the trustees and administrators in relation to the daily operations of a higher education facility will be explored.
This course is to examine major trends and current issues in American higher education. It focuses on historical, social, organizational, curricular, accountability and budgetary aspects of colleges and universities in the United States. It also addresses the internationalization of higher education in specific regions outside the United States
The course focuses on the fundamentals of planning, design and production of instructional multimedia tools. Laboratory activities cover interrelationships of communication theory; selection, utilization and production of materials, the use of media and the operation of equipment. There are opportunities for students to practice and use educational media and equipment in a cooperative, multicultural, learning environment and in various micro-teaching situations.
This course focuses on multicultural perspectives in education. This course is designed to prepare individuals associated with education to meet the needs of culturally, linguistically, ethnically, or economically diverse (CLEED) classrooms. It is required of all MAT program participants. The course content includes: 1.) African-American cultures, 2.) Asian cultures, 3.) Hispanic cultures, 4.) Native American cultures, 5.) European cultures, 6.) teaching strategies for ethnic studies, 7.) multicultural education as an academic discipline, and 8.) religious differences in culture. A variety of instructional strategies and methods will be used to promote active inquiry into learning during class time.
Students are introduced to two research approaches that are used in special education research: quantitative methods and qualitative methods. Students conduct an extensive review of literature in an area of interest and make a formal oral presentation about their literature review.
