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Credit Hours: 3

A review of legal processes as they affect American education and Arkansas Public Schools with emphasis on student rights, tort liability, and contractual relationships of teachers, teacher rights and responsibilities, and other legal knowledge necessary for effective teacher rights.

Credit Hours: 3

A study of the relationship between language and culture including the impact of cultural experiences on language development, disposition, and learning. Understanding acculturation and assimilation and their influence on people鈥檚 perception of immigrants. Emphasis on continual professional development and research in ESOL and the importance of the educator as a professional resource and advocate for English learners and their families.

Credit Hours: 3

The philosophy, administration, and practice of supervision for the improvement of instruction on the elementary and secondary levels. The course will prepare the candidates with skills needed to implement the TESS evaluation system in Arkansas public schools.

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on the interaction between curriculum, instruction, and assessment as essential to student achievement. It examines the role of the principal as a facilitator of curriculum design and implementation.

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on the use of technology across all functions of a school system. The course focuses on the leader鈥檚 role for the utilization of technology in the schools.

Credit Hours: 3

This course will provide the candidate with the knowledge and dispositions needed to facilitate and engage in effective collaboration with both internal and external publics within the school and community. Emphasis will be placed on involvement of all stakeholders in the development and implementation of an effective school-community relations program that mobilize community resources needed to ensure success of all children.

Or other SPED course if similar course taken as an undergraduate.

Credit Hours: 3

A graduate level course designed to introduce teachers to a study of those individuals who deviate from the normal pattern of development. The course includes a review of the causes of individual differences and a survey of materials and methods used in the field of special education. The course is specifically designed for teachers in alternative licensure programs who may not have taken similar courses at the undergraduate level.

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to promote inclusive practices to respond to the educational needs of diverse learners. Candidates will learn how to integrate the principles of UDL within lessons, unit plans, and assessments and explore how Assistive Technology (AT) meets the unique learning styles of a wide range of learners. Additionally, the course addresses Response to Intervention (RTI) to improve access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities.

Credit Hours: 3

A course that will provide candidates with knowledge and skills necessary to fulfill duties and responsibilities of a Special Education teacher in Arkansas. Candidates will be introduced to special education legislation, learner development and individual learning differences, IEP planning and implementation, learning environments, curricular content knowledge, assessment, policies and procedures, instructional planning, professional learning and ethical practice, collaboration as well as behavior strategies related to educating students with disabilities.

Credit Hours: 3

Federal laws mandating the provision of special education and related services to students with disabilities have been in effect since 1975. To understand the field of special education, it is essential that we be familiar with the history and development of these laws. Because special education has become a highly litigated area, it is important that special education teachers, administrators, and associated staff know the requirements of these laws. Moreover, the laws are in a constant state of development and refinement; therefore, we need to be able to locate the necessary information to keep abreast of these changes.

Laws ensuring the provision of special education to students with disabilities are based on constitutional principles, written and enacted by legislatures, enforced by administrative agencies, and interpreted by the courts. It is through the interaction of the various components of the legal system, legislative and judicial, that special education law evolves.

Credit Hours: 3

This course focuses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to promote inclusive practices to respond to the educational needs of diverse learners. Candidates will learn how to integrate the principles of UDL within lessons, unit plans, and assessments and explore how Assistive Technology (AT) meets the unique learning styles of a wide range of learners. Additionally, the course addresses Response to Intervention (RTI) to improve access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities.

Or other SPED course if similar course taken as an undergraduate.

Credit Hours: 3

A graduate level course designed to introduce teachers to a study of those individuals who deviate from the normal pattern of development. The course includes a review of the causes of individual differences and a survey of materials and methods used in the field of special education. The course is specifically designed for teachers in alternative licensure programs who may not have taken similar courses at the undergraduate level.

Credit Hours: 3

Federal laws mandating the provision of special education and related services to students with disabilities have been in effect since 1975. To understand the field of special education, it is essential that we be familiar with the history and development of these laws. Because special education has become a highly litigated area, it is important that special education teachers, administrators, and associated staff know the requirements of these laws. Moreover, the laws are in a constant state of development and refinement; therefore, we need to be able to locate the necessary information to keep abreast of these changes.

Laws ensuring the provision of special education to students with disabilities are based on constitutional principles, written and enacted by legislatures, enforced by administrative agencies, and interpreted by the courts. It is through the interaction of the various components of the legal system, legislative and judicial, that special education law evolves.

Credit Hours: 3

A course that will provide candidates with knowledge and skills necessary to fulfill duties and responsibilities of a Special Education teacher in Arkansas. Candidates will be introduced to special education legislation, learner development and individual learning differences, IEP planning and implementation, learning environments, curricular content knowledge, assessment, policies and procedures, instructional planning, professional learning and ethical practice, collaboration as well as behavior strategies related to educating students with disabilities.