Strategies for Teaching Exceptional Youth

Catalog description

This course will help students understand the characteristics of adolescents with exceptionalities. Students will identify appropriate attitudes and strategies that will help them build positive relationships with exceptional students and create appropriate learning environments. Students will examine legal issues, inclusion, collaboration, and behavioral and academic needs as they pertain to exceptional youth. Students will learn how to modify, accommodate, and adapt instruction for exceptional youth, with an emphasis on adolescents who have disabilities, are gifted and talented, and are identified as at-risk. Prerequisite: minimum score of 01 in 'Upper Division Status'.