EDUC 6656 Essentials of Collaboration and Inclusion

This course examines various aspects of collaborative instruction for students with disabilities in the regular classroom. Beyond collaboration, this course will focus on strategies for differentiated instruction, curriculum modification, classroom accommodations and assignments. (Field Experience required)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

SPED 6602, and SPED 6633

Typically Offered

fall

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the candidate will:

1. Understand and use a wide range of tools, instructional strategies, and social supports that enhance collaboration with teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, administrators, students, parents and families to ensure students with disabilities are successful in inclusive school environments, extra-curricular activities, and community domains.
2. Identify both barriers to and benefits of collaboration in inclusive education, and strategies to mediate barriers.
3. Articulate the idiosyncratic decision making process behind inclusive education, and the necessity of evaluating specific instructional and social needs of individual students when making placement decisions.
4. Explain, evaluate and refine your philosophy of education, and your position on collaborating with various stakeholders regarding inclusive services for students with disabilities.
5. Plan, develop, and implement a collaborative, co-teaching unit lesson plan with a target group of learners in an authentic classroom setting.