Special Education Residency Seminar 2A ((2 Credits))

Catalog description

The Special Education Residency Seminar 2A is the third clinical course in a series of four clinical courses in the MAT Special Education program at SUNY Empire State College. It places the teacher candidates into special education or general education classroom under the direct supervision of a certified Special Education critic teacher throughout the term. This online course provides special education Residents with mentoring and support throughout the term. Mentoring is primarily situated in the Resident’s classroom, supplemented with online discussions.  The Special Education Residency Seminar 2A is designed to develop the residents’ teaching repertoire and ability to analyze and modify teaching strategies in relation to the resident’s classroom responsibilities. Residents will follow requirements for New York State Initial Teacher Certification as well as the curricular and professional development programs of the school district where they are residing. Using a gradual release of responsibility model, residents will begin working with a school-based critic teacher before the school year begins. Residents will utilize co-teaching strategies, gradually assuming a more active role in classroom planning, evaluation, and lead instruction as the semester unfolds. They will participate in online discussions and synchronous webinars associated with each course module.   The residency seminar involves collaboration among students, critic teachers and Empire State College faculty. This two-credit course will involve 4 on-site classroom observations. Two of these observations will be conducted by the field supervisors, one will be a video observation by a content area faculty in special education and one will be conducted by the critic teacher. Students are required to complete a pre-and post-observation reflection for each observation. They will also provide a lesson plan to the observing supervisor based on the program benchmarks for that observation.