An important component of the course requires students to develop and refine their skills in planning effective treatment programs. The reading abilities of a special group of public school students will be assessed and appropriate courses of treatment implemented. This course is designed to provide prospective teachers with methods, strategies, materials, and diagnostic and evaluative procedures necessary for the instruction of content area reading in grades six through eight. This is a course in developmental reading for secondary students. Lecturers and demonstrations include assessment of reading needs, a review of work recognition skills, comprehension and selection of materials.
Emphasis is placed on reading activities for the content areas.
This course explores techniques designed to aid prospective regular and special education teachers in working with exceptional children who have been mainstreamed into regular schools and classrooms at the elementary and secondary levels. The course covers a range of topics including issues in special education, educational assessment, characteristics of mainstreamed students and curricular modifications and adaptation. This course is devoted to the study of the major principles upon which effective school-community relationships are based. It also emphasizes the ways in which parents and teachers may make effective use of community agencies that may have a beneficial effect upon the development of the children. This course emphasized techniques used in parental interviews, conferences and referrals by school personnel with parents of children with and without disabilities, and strategies practiced by agencies working with families.