I is a materials and methodology course for pre-service special education teachers. An emphasis is placed on assessment, instructional techniques, and materials necessary to teach reading and language arts skills and concepts to children with disabilities. This course is offered to Special Education majors the semester prior to their student teaching experience. Curriculum Planning and Methods II is a methods course for Special Education teachers in training which emphasizes the assessment, instructional skills and materials necessary to teach arithmetic concepts to children with disabilities. This course deals with special education programs for senior high school students as well as those persons who reside in the community.
Emphasis is placed on vocational preparation and training.
Specific techniques for task analysis of jobs, daily living skills, and social adaptation constitute a major portion of this course. Emphasis is placed on the development of functional skills that contribute to normalized development. The basic learning principles of operant and classical conditioning, with the application of these principles with handicapped individuals. Recent developments in all areas of special education. Sample topics are inclusion, block scheduling, interactive teaming, alternative assessment, deinstitutionalization and curriculum issues.