Curriculum Adaptation for Secondary Students with Special Needs

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students enhance their basic understanding of principles and practices related to addressing academic ability and cultural diversity in the classroom. This course will focus on ways to identify and acknowledge student variance, differentiate instruction, create a responsive classroom environment, develop instructional and management strategies and utilize Universal Design for learning in conjunction with state standards. The course will assist pre-service teachers in developing approaches to modify content, process and products of mixed ability classrooms, address the varied readiness and needs of learners through developmentally appropriate practice, and to use technology to enhance learning. This course will emphasize NYS learning standards. 15 hours of fieldwork experience are required in a special educatIon setting. Pre-requisites: Senior status and EDUC 301 .