Teaching Exceptional Students

Teaching Exceptional Students

$1,699.00

Through this course you will learn the instructional strategies, competencies and skills to prepare you for teaching exceptional students in your classroom.

The course treats the implications of physical, health and multiple disabilities. Illustrations are offered in ways to facilitate student participation in major life activities in the home, school, and community. Strategies are provided for creating meaningful educational experiences.  Suggestions are offered that addresses curriculum modifications and instructional strategies for the core academic curriculum as well as specialized curriculum areas.  Emphasis is on physical access to the general curriculum, adaptations and instructional strategies.

Discover useful methods for teaching students across a wide range of skills, from efficient readers to those with learning disabilities, dyslexia, phonological processing difficulty, rapid-naming deficits, or limited language. Includes discussion of which strategies work best for students with particular needs at specific levels of development.

Further, the course presents practical strategies grounded in a scientific framework that enables teachers to recognize “good reader behaviors,” assess students’ strengths and weaknesses, analyze the evidence collected, and make instructional decisions.

The course will provide knowledge of the 7 competencies that will be tested, all in preparation for passing the FTCE Exceptional Student Education K-12 Test:

  1. foundations of exceptional student education
  2. assessment and evaluation
  3. instructional practices in exceptional student education
  4. assessing, designing, and implementing positive behavioral supports
  5. language development, reading, and communication skills
  6. skills related to teaching interpersonal interactions and participation
  7. the transition process

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