
This program focuses on the Special Education needs for children in grades 5-12.
The Special Education major trains students in educational, social, emotional, and vocational interventions, identification, assessment and programming processes. It also focuses on the adaptation and development of curriculum materials, analysis of behavior and the development and implementation of individual educational programs.
Requirements
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of their programs of study, our Education majors will understand:
- Their own history, identity, and position within US society and that of others, and related impact on teaching and learning.
- Human variability, and the value of strength-based perspectives in work with children, families, communities.
- The critical role of the teacher in enacting a humanizing pedagogy that is anchored in the needs, identities, and lived experiences of students, families, and broader community.
- The history, complexity, and power of institutional settings such as schools, and the ethical responsibility of a teacher in working for justice.
- The big ideas of disciplinary content and tools for inquiry, research, and curriculum design and implementation across content areas relevant to P-12 teaching.
- The architecture of the ‘self’ (Sealy-Ruiz), the imperative of critical self-reflection for personal/professional growth.
