SPED 6503

Instructional Design in Special Education

Course Overview

While special education teachers have extensive experience in creating lessons and in using prepared lessons, it is important that they become skilled in modifying instruction in response to the learning challenges posed by individual needs, failure to progress, and inclusion in general education.  In this course teachers will learn diagnostic assessment to pinpoint errors or gaps in student learning.  Teachers will collect data on student progress and design powerful instructional lessons.  In addition, teachers will design a six-week unit that will support instruction in an inclusion setting.  Skilled analysis of the instructional demands and the learner's responses will help teachers in modifying their lessons and designing a unit of study.  A peer review process will be utilized in the course to offer each student reflection and provide some support for problematic issues in development.  Then each student will present their unit to a panel of peers and provide another layer of understanding and application of content knowledge and skills.

This course is a synchronous long distance course that use a Centra Live Program and Blackboard.