Content includes strategies for teaching students with learning disabilities in special and regular education classes. Course addresses diagnostic-prescriptive teaching, direct instruction, and specific strategies and materials addressing each academic area. The Individualized Education Program (IEP), development of goals and objectives, linking assessment with instruction, inclusion, and generality of behavior change will also be included.

Graduate standing or permission of the instructor; C501

TEXT

     Mercer, C., & Mercer, A. (1998).Teaching students with learning problems (5^th Ed.).Merrill Publishing Co. Columbus, OH.

1. Learning Environments
2. Planning and Organizing Instruction
3.  IEP Process
4. Assessment for Teaching
5. Teaching Students and Managing Instruction
6. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Development
7. Teaching Language
8. Teaching Reading
9. Teaching Spelling, Handwriting, and Written Expression
10. Teaching Math
11. Teaching Learning Strategies, Content, and Study Skills

Students will:

1. develop a functional IEP' s with goals, behavioral objectives, materials, and strategies that are linked to assessment and are appropriate to the skill needs and entry level characteristics of individual students;

2. monitor student progress as they accomplish goals and objectives on the IEP;

3. describe basic teaching strategies, specialized instructional techniques, and assessment techniques designed for use with persons with learning disabilities and other mild handicaps;

4. define the role and responsibilities of the learning disabilities teacher and his or her interactions with other professionals in the education of students with learning disabilities;

5. describe, distinguish among, and evaluate the strategies and materials used with students with learning disabilities from various cultures;

6. design and implement instructional units that include individualized, small group, and large group strategies for teaching academic skills to learning-disabled students from various cultural and economic backgrounds;

7. evaluate contemporary research on teaching effectiveness for students with learning disabilities in terms of educational usefulness;

8. describe appropriate school readiness, reading, language and math techniques for students with learning disabilities from various cultural backgrounds;

9. evaluate computer programs for elementary students in terms of usefulness with students with learning disabilities;

10. describe and develop strategies to promote active parent involvement in the IEP process and home-based interventions.

11. describe and develop collaborative strategies for use with students who are mainstreamed into the regular classroom;

12. evaluate, select, and use computerized IEP systems and a variety of adaptive technologies to promote skills gains for persons with LD and other handicapping conditions;

13. develop, implement, and evaluate lessons taught to students with learning disabilities within the regular classroom.

14. use trans-environmental programming to develop academic and study skill for students with LD that transfer more easily to regular classroom settings;

15. develop strategies that improve students with LD's self-management skills in academic areas during individualized and group instruction;

16. consider typical and atypical developmental factors in developing and implementing strategies to teach affective, social, language, sensorimotor, and other cognitive skills in regular and special education settings.; and

17. demonstrate understanding of curricular design and instructional strategies for students with and without handicaps;

18. collaborate with regular educators to develop curricular, testing, and instructional adaptations that promote success for learners with and without LD in the regular classroom;

19. ability to supervise and work with teacher aides, volunteers, and paraprofessionals; and

20. organize task, setting, and time variables to facilitate learning in special and regular classroom settings.

ASSIGNMENTS

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