Course Details
Course Code: EDUC590 Course ID: 4087 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Graduate
This course is designed to give regular education teachers strategies to use in academically and culturally diverse classrooms. Using case studies as a launching point, course participants will examine the complexities of balancing the needs of gifted education, general education, special education, and culturally diverse students in a standards-driven climate. Use of tiered assignments, alternative assessments targeting different intelligences, and other modifications will be evaluated, implemented, and refined. Course participants will collaborate to address beliefs, best practices, challenges, current research, and ways to apply them to their own teaching practice.
Course Schedule
| Registration Dates | Course Dates | Session | Weeks |
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| 12/28/20 - 06/04/21 | 06/07/21 - 08/01/21 | Spring 2021 Session D | 8 Week session |
| 02/22/21 - 07/30/21 | 08/02/21 - 09/26/21 | Summer 2021 Session I | 8 Week session |
| 04/26/21 - 10/01/21 | 10/04/21 - 11/28/21 | Fall 2021 Session B | 8 Week session |
Current Syllabi
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand differentiation.
- Analyze the need for diversified assessment strategies to demonstrate students’ achievement of academic, behavioral, and functional skills and to make continuous instructional decisions.
- Analyze diverse student characteristics and environmental factors (to plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction and learning).
- Apply information related to best practices and/or demonstrate appropriate strategies for teaching students of all abilities across grade levels (including assessment, differentiation of instruction, research-based instructional strategies, age appropriate instructional materials, instructional and assistive technology, co-teaching, collaboration, and classroom management).
Required Course Textbooks
Heacox, D. (2008). Differentiating Instruction in the regular classroom. How to reach and teach all learners, Grades 3-12. Free Spirit Publishing: Minneapolis, MN. ISBN-13: 978-1575423289
*Vaughn, S., Bos, C., Schumm, J. S. (2010). Teaching Students who are exceptional, diverse, and at risk in the general education classroom, (5thEd.) Allyn & Bacon: Boston, MA. ISBN-13: 978-0137151790
Recommended Textbook for the degree program:
In addition to the required texts in this course, you are strongly encouraged to purchase the latest addition of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) if you have not previously purchased this resource.
Websites
In addition to the required course texts the following public domain Websites are useful. Please abide by the university’s academic honesty policy when using Internet sources as well. Note Web site addresses are subject to change.
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U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs |
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National Center on Secondary Education and Transition Services |
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Disability Rights California |
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Wrightslaw |
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Children and Adults with ADHD |
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National Attention Deficit Disorder Association |
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National Institute for Childhood Health and Human Development |
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Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic |
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Cooperative Learning Center of the University of Minnesota |
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The Educator’s Reference Desk |
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North Central Regional Education Laboratory – Grouping Practices |
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/math/ma1group.htm |
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports |
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Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders |
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Everything ESL.net |
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US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition |
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Southern Poverty Law Center |
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National MultiCultural Institute |
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National Association for Multicultural Education |
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National Association for Bilingual Education |
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Teachers of English to Speakers of Foreign Languages |
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Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development |
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National Center for Children in Poverty |
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory – Critical Issue: Providing Effective Schooling for Students at Risk |
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/atrisk/at600.htm |
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Center for Applied Special Technology |
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Success for All Foundation |
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Ed by Design |
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National Council of Teachers of English |
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |
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The K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center |
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How to Study.com |
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Self-Determination Synthesis Project |
| Book Title: | Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom - With CD |
| ISBN: | 9781575423289 |
| Publication Info: | Free Spirit Publishing |
| Author: | Heacox, Diane |
| Unit Cost: | $19.81 |
| Book Title: | Teaching Students Who are Exceptional, Diverse, and at Risk in the General Education Classroom. 5th ed |
| ISBN: | 9780137151790 |
| Publication Info: | Pearson |
| Author: | Vaughn, Sharon R |
| Unit Cost: | $29.99 |