The student is given practical experience with emotionally disturbed children in a secondary classroom setting. Contact of the student with teachers, parents, and ancillary community services is stressed. This course provides directed experiences of working with students with special needs in an interrelated educational setting at the middle, junior or senior high level. This course provides directed experiences of working with students with special needs in an interrelated educational setting at the middle, junior or senior high level. The course covers organization and implementation of programs for the trainable mentally retarded.
Emphasis is placed on adaptive behavior systems, methods, and materials.
This course deals with groupings, methods and techniques for teaching the tool subjects, occupational education, the organization and administration of classes, instructional planning, and the preparation of materials for the educable mentally retarded. The student is given an opportunity to observe, teach, and control trainable mentally retarded children in a school setting. Students participate in all activities of the school. The student is given an opprotunity to observe, teach, and control trainable mentally retarded children in an institutional setting. Methods and procedures of adapting the educational process to the gifted are studied.