Effective Teaching Strategies for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
Effective Teaching Strategies for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
Teacher candidates will learn IEP-based lesson planning and teacher-directed and student-mediated instructional strategies. Application of course concepts will occur in a local school district each week.
| Hours | 3.0 Credit, 3.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab |
| Prerequisites | Admission to special education program; CPSE 403 or equivalent. |
| Taught | Fall |
| Programs | Containing CPSE 452 |
Course Outcomes:
Characteristics of students with mild/moderate disabilities
Describe educational characteristics of students with mild/moderate disabilities.
Components of the Individualized Education Program (IEP)
List and describe the components of a standards-based IEP.
Utah Core Curriculum for mathematics
Demonstrate understanding of the Utah core curriculum for mathematics.
Standards-based planning
Write standards-based PLAAFP statements, IEP and unit goals, and lesson objectives for case study students.
Lesson planning for the effective teaching cycle
Write scripted direct instruction lesson plans with recording methods for student achievement data.
Enacting the effective teaching cycle
Use direct instruction lesson plans to enact the effective teaching cycle with high student response rates, praise, and corrective feedback.
Informal curriculum based assessments
Demonstrate how to design and collect data with curriculum based assessments, and how to use data to make instructional decisions for case study students.
Response to Intervention
Describe the RtI concept and process, and use progress-monitoring data to make RtI decisions for case study students.