Apr 16, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

EDU 5010 Leaders of Learning


Lecture: 4 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
This course provides graduate students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions, and issues commonly encountered when addressing the needs of exceptional students. Issues include diversity; federal and state legislative mandates; individualized educational plans; identification; assessment; characteristics; differentiation; and social issues and concerns. A specific focus is placed on inclusive classrooms, teaching students with disabilities in general education settings, and making adaptation and/or accommodations in order to keep students with exceptionalities in the general education setting. Students research the teacher’s role in teaching students who face learning and social challenges, and other relevant and practical issues unique to educating exceptional students. In addition, students examine and develop their personal educational philosophies regarding diversity, beliefs about students and inclusion.