SPED 607 - Advanced Curriculum and Instruction: Mild Moderate Support Needs

Units: 4
Curriculum and instructional strategies to meet the academic, social, behavioral and executive functioning needs of students with mild/moderate disabilities. Coordination of diagnostic/prescriptive evaluation, curriculum, instruction, and transition to increase self-efficacy and positive learning outcomes for students.

Prerequisites: Admission to M.S. Special Education program.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Identify and implement various academic, behavioral, social and emotional programs/curriculum, based upon performance-determined instruction.
Demonstrate skills relating to individual and group teaching/learning sequences and outcomes.
Demonstrate use of the variety of instructional/teaching/learning options based upon learning theories and evidence-based practices and the use of instructional technology.
Identify , analyze and implement already existing programs curriculum and strategies and as they relate instruction of content, individualized educational plans and positive reinforcement of learning outcomes and development of motivational practices.
Identify and implement techniques such as Explicit Instruction, Cue-Do-Review, I do, We do, You do, and Cognitive Strategy Instruction (Self Regulated Strategy Development), and materials to enhance the utilization of existing programs and instructional sequences.
Identify and implement strategies to help students develop academic, self management and executive function skills.
Plan, teach and evaluate lessons that incorporate research based instruction including explicit instruction, self regulated strategy development, differentiation and Understanding by Design.