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Online Class: Special Education: Foundations, Behavior, Curriculum, Instruction, and Evaluation

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3 CEUs

Course Description

This course establishes the foundations for employing positive approaches in the treatment of people with developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders by covering the principles of equal opportunity and self-determination and their relationship to self-determined learning. This basis leads to prescriptions for self-determined learning and positive behaviors.

The course covers: (a) approaches for dealing with challenging behavior (functional; behavior assessments; positive behaviors supports, and supportive instructional environments), (b) instruction methods (teaching self-regulation of inappropriate behavior, social behavior, and play; and the teaching of generalized self-regulation of independent work); (c) principles of curriculum design; (d) curriculum guides for self-determined learning (schedule following and self-monitoring; and self-regulation and self-determined learning); (e) school to work transition (generalization and adjustments during transition, transition programming, student-directed IEPs; (f) supported work (assessing workplace interests and opportunities, assessing and teaching cue-card use at work; teaching problem solving for adjustments at work; and (g) evaluation methods (daily progress evaluation; evaluations of self-determined learning, assessments of self-determination).

This course offers 3 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

Overview of Course on Foundations, Behavior, Instruction, & Curriculum - This course provides an introduction to the foundations of educational treatment of people with disabilities, and to the positive support strategies that encouarage self-determined learning in children and youth with disabilities.
Unit 1: Monthly Progress Assignment - For Tobago Teachers Only!! Begin your progress reports now.
Unit 1.0 Foundations of Special Education Opportunity - Reivews the basis for the foundations
1.1 The Third Self-Determination Revolution - Describes the revolution the produced the equal opportunity priniple
1.2 Establishing the Equal Opportunity Principle - Describes how the self-determination revolution led to the equal opportunity principle.
1.3 Extending the Equal Opportunity Principle to Children with Disabilities - Describes how the equal opportunity principle was used to extend educational opportunities to children with disabilities.
1.4 Explaining the Equal Opportunity Principle - Provides a theory that explains that the basis of equal opportunity is equal prospects for self-determination.
1.5 Translating Equal Opportunity Theory into Practice - Describes how self-determined learning theory connects the equal opportunity principle with learning and self-determination.
1.6: Implications for Instruction - Describes how the instructional units that follow will demonstrate the natrual function between learning and self-determination
Unit 2.0: Challenging Behavior - Describes the range of challenging behaviors exhibited by children and youth with autism spectrum disorders and the acceptable and positive approaches for dealing with them.
2.1. Functional Behavior Assessments - Describes methods of assessing the functions of challenging behaviors in order to identify positive intervention approaches to dealing with them.
2.2: Positive Behavior Supports - Explains acceptable and positive approaches to helping students with autism spectrum disordes deal with their challenging behaviors
2.3 Supportive Instructional Environments - Describes the environments that increase predictability and control over learning for students with autism spectrum disorders.
Unit 3.0 Instructional Methods - Describes the methods and strategies that have proved effective in promoting appropriate behavior and in developing skills and work behavior of students with autism spectrum disorders.
3.1: Teaching Self-Regulation of Inappropriate Behaviors - Describes self-regulation strategies proved effective in reducing the inappropriate behaviors of students with autism spectrum disorders.
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