This course is designed as a preparatory experience to support students during pre-student teaching experiences in a variety of classroom environments. This course integrates prior education coursework, with an emphasis on planning, assessment, and preparation for student teaching. Topics include the process for applying to student teaching, preparation of professional documents, interview skills, assessment, and the development of a portfolio. Clinical experiences on Tuesdays and Thursdays are required.

This course is designed to provide an overview of best practices for creating inclusive settings for families and children (birth-six years) with disabilities, developmental differences, and challenging behaviors.

This course develops content and methods for interdisciplinary instruction and art integration in the elementary and middle school classroom. Critical thinking, problem solving, and experiential approaches are developed through reading, discussion, active participation, planning, and teaching. Students create interdisciplinary lessons that integrate the arts (theater, music, dance, visual arts) and address content area standards. This course fulfills a pre-student teaching experience requirement for licensure. Prerequisites: admission to the teacher education program.

This course serves a dual purpose: 1) it focuses on the fundamentals of instructional design and the use of multimedia technology as a teaching and learning strategy that addresses diverse student needs and encourages active participation in learning, 2) it emphasizes technology tools that facilitate communication and collaboration within local and global learning communities as a means of improvising leadership functions and effectively engaging in with others in oline and remote learning.

Intensive field experience in the pre-K environment. Integrates prior early childhood coursework through the preparation of integrated units designed and delivered in a pre-K environment. Field work is required. Prerequisites: 243, 255, 290; admission to the teacher education program.

This course is designed to provide an overview of best practices for creating inclusive settings for families and children (birth-six years) with disabilities, developmental differences, and challenging behaviors.

In this methods course, students will plan and implement instruction for diverse learners. These strategies are meant to be used in both general and special educational classrooms to improve the learning and academic performance of students who qualify for special education services. Students who enroll in this course will learn to design and differentiate content in ways that it meets the diverse needs of students across a multitude of exceptionalities.

This course explores research-based strategies to increase achievement of diverse PK-12 populations. Students will be required to think critically and reflectively regarding meeting the academic, social, cultural, and emotional needs of a diverse range of students, including English learners and Wisconsins Native American children and youth. This course is restricted to students in the professional degree completion program.

A study of developmentally appropriate curriculum and assessment practices from birth to age 6 including children with special abilities, disabilities, or developmental differences.

Assessment serves as a cornerstone of special education, both in terms of eligibility determination and instructional planning. This course will focus on the wide array of assessment methods available for identifying students with disabilities and evaluating their responsiveness to instruction, including norm-referenced tests, criterion-references assessment tasks, curriculum-based assessments and measures, and dynamic assessment. Prerequisite: 290 or COMD-411, 306 or concurrent.