Department of Special Education
Master
of Arts in Teaching (MAT) - Courses
Course Descriptions
EEX 6051 Creating Positive Learning Environments for Students with Disabilities (6) This course presents an overview of assessment, behavior management,
and instructional planning for students with disabilities. It also incorporates content about the
historical and legal foundations of special education and theories and research that focus on
defining, describing and intervening with students who have learning disabilities, behavior
disorders, mildmoderate
mental retardation, mild to moderate developmental disabilities, and
physical disabilities. Finally, methods of working with families of students with disabilities and
collaborating with other professionals and paraeducators
are studied.
EEX 6225 Developing Individualized Educational Programs for Students with Disabilities (6) This 6hour
course reinforces and extends competencies in assessment, behavior
management, legal and ethical foundations of special education, instructional planning,
working with families, collaboration, and characteristics of disabilities. This course give
special focus to ways in which effective teachers know and decide what to teach and ways in
which they know that their students are learning and progressing. Content emphasizes
knowledge and skills needed by teachers who are working with students who have mild
disabilities and those from diverse cultural, socioeconomic and ethnic areas.
EEX 6247 Implementing and Evaluating Programs for Students with Disabilities (6) This course emphasizes instructional approaches for implementing reading, math,
language arts and social skills in conjunction with classroom management and motivational strategies for
students with mild emotional, learning and/or cognitive disabilities. Content includes a focus on the
characteristics of mild disabilities that are related to learning and cognitive processes, instructional
planning, collaboration with other school professionals and families, approaches to problem solving, and
social skills training. Students are to demonstrate skills in these areas by planning and implementing
individualized and group instruction that incorporates instructional approaches that consider diverse
characteristics of students in learning modalities, cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic areas.
EDG 6947 MAT Internship The course fulfills the Florida Department of Education, teacher certification
requirement for a fulltime
internship in a K12
accredited school in a classroom of the intern’s area
of certification. The opportunity to apply pedagogical content knowledge in a public or accredited
private school classroom is a crucial component of the teacher preparation program. Additionally,
this 6hour
final internship reinforces competencies introduced during previous courses by
connecting content about assessment, behavior management, foundations of special
education, instructional planning, working with families, collaboration, and theories of
disabilities with practice through the development and implementation of an action
research project.
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