Sample topics may include such matters as the role and function of supervisors and administrators, budgeting and financial issues, measures of teacher effectiveness, accountability, and legal standards. Designed to improve the skills of professionals related to their interaction with parents of exceptional children, this course provides an opportunity to learn the special needs of parents, techniques of communication, processes by which change can be implemented, legal rights and implications and resources. Participants are encouraged to assume the role of a parental consultant. Presentation by class members of selected topics related to the gifted. State standards and guidelines for programs are discussed, as well as materials for use in classes for the gifted.
Students observe classes for the gifted and talented.
Laws and court cases, both federal and local, that have precipitated the initiation of programs for the exceptional child and with parents efforts to receive legal support for opportunities for their children to receive an appropriate education. An advanced course in methodology and applications, in which the graduate student is given the opportunity to refine many of the skills and behaviors acquired in previous courses in Special Education, especially as related to the skills and methods that contribute to effective classroom instruction and management. Specific requirements for individual graduate students are developed by those students and the supervising professor. This is the required research course in special education. The course covers the field of research design and methodology in intrasubject experimentation.