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= = = = = Welcome to Educ 105 = = CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCEPTIONAL LEARNERS =

Prisca R. Moore, Ph.D.

Office: Lentz 336

Phone: 551-5976 (work)

Email: pmoore@carthage.edu


 * Educ 105 Learning Goals: **

1. Students will demonstrate their ability to plan, implement, and assess tutoring sessions for their in-class field experience/service learning project. They will participate fully (goal 100% participation) in each tutoring session engaging and working with their students to the best of their ability. They will write a journal entry for each tutoring session and turn these in on a weekly basis to Prisca for evaluation.

2. Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a team member for the out-of-class field experience/service learning project – the Positive Alternatives Center afterschool program. Students must show leadership skills and willingness to assume ownership for the success of the program while they are participating including working with their team to plan each session, being present to implement the plans, and engage in reflection writing for the PAC Director, Martine, the PAC interns and Prisca. 3. Students will engage in deep reflection in field experience journaling/blogging for both instructor and directors/interns and in field experience reflection papers. This reflection will go beyond simple rehashing of classroom events but will show the students ability to analyze classroom instruction to determine what is working effectively to meet the needs of their students, to identify and describe their own strengths and weaknesses in the planning-implementing-evaluation process, and propose solutions or change to improve their instruction, planning or assessment practices. 4. Students will successfully complete class reading, writing, and other assignments prior to student teaching to develop their pedagogical knowledge for teaching students with special needs as well as increase and improve their knowledge of designing instruction incorporating features of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Students will also show willingness to experiment, try new ideas, and will fully participate in all field trips and hands-on activities.

5. Students will demonstrate fluency in the basic concepts and regulations for IDEA 2004 and NCLB. Students must show mastery to the 80% level on class exams regarding special education law and regulations to pass the course.

6. Students will show competence in writing a unit plan and planning, teaching, and evaluating a lesson plan from this unit designed to demonstrate their understanding of: a. Developing learning activities incorporating features of UDL, particularly use of alternative media/texts to provide information to their learners and to allow their learners to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. b. Incorporate technology as tools for teaching and learning – for both the teacher and the students c. Demonstrate a developing knowledge of task analysis – breaking their unit project into discrete steps and activities and then selecting one lesson/activity to develop fully with a task analysis of each activity in the lesson