Childhood Learning and Special Needs

Catalog description

This course is required of all students seeking New York state teacher certification in Childhood/Students with Disabilities. Students will view all children within a continuum of diversity for child learning, with acceptance for differences in learning styles and rates. A focus of the course will be on the history of special education within the larger context of American public schools. The course will also address characteristics and intervention strategies for students with special needs across the curriculum. Understanding family perspectives in child learning will be examined from an educational framework. Multiple intelligence theory will be explored. A required two-hour per week field experience in a local school will provide the setting to observe and work with students from diverse backgrounds.