UDL and Co-Teaching

Catalog description

In this course, candidates will explore the history, issues, and challenges of inclusion as a societal ideology and one in which students with disabilities are educated alongside typical students in the general education classroom. Methods such as coteaching will be studied as a way to create full-inclusion schools and classrooms. Legal and ethical requirements related to educational equity, health and safety, confidentiality, reporting, record keeping and accountability will be explored. Candidates will visit schools that promote different inclusion models and speak to experts in the field of special and general education. In addition, candidates will be exposed to unique challenges of inclusion such as how to teach and build inclusive STEM projects and activities that meet the expectation of having ‘low floors, high ceilings, and wide walls. Course applies toward license in mild interventions. Includes a field component.