Master of Education in Special Education with Preliminary Education Specialist Credential – Mild to Moderate Support Needs Teaching Credential with Internship Option (California)

Foundational preparation in special education pedagogy, law, typical/atypical human development, classroom/behavior management, SEL, literacy, inclusive HLP, UDL, technology, diversity, and teaching English learners. This is one of three courses to meet the required 120 hours course contact time, as one of the requirements for an internship.

Prerequisite: SED 601

This course will address how to design ways to establish, maintain, and monitor inclusive learning environments by using an array of positive behavior supports ensuring each student is treated fairly and respectfully by adults and peers, thrives through social-emotional growth, and expresses appropriate developmental and individual responsibility.

Examines psychological, socio-cultural, linguistic, and other factors influencing development, learning, and the full range of learners, including English Learners, standard-English learners, students with exceptionalities, and students with other needs. Considers a variety of data to identify appropriate strategies and community-based resources to support all learners and their families.

Prerequisite: ITL 604

Examines theories and research regarding typical and atypical child and adolescent development and learning. Considers various data collection and assessment techniques guiding the selection of effective instructional strategies, practices, resources, and technologies needed to create environments supporting the full range of learners and provide equitable access to the curriculum.

Prerequisite: ITL 606

Candidates integrate principles of learning theories and factors influencing human development when designing instruction and evaluating instructional effectiveness. Candidates will utilize a four-stage cyclical model of planning, teaching, analyzing and reflecting in the process of learning-and-teaching to ensure all students equitable access to the curriculum.

Prerequisite: SED 605; ITL 608

The course will address the legal responsibilities of teachers related to student health care plans to support a safe environment and implement specialized health care regulations and technology, including how to support movement, mobility, and sensory, procedures and assistive technology, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The course includes an introductory study of atypical development associated with various disabilities as well as resilience and protective factors. The course will utilize assessment data for planning and implementing appropriate transition options including issues related to traumatic brain injury and providing support for students with disabilities to acquire responsibility for learning and self-advocacy. This course will also include effective conflict resolutions techniques that use communication, collaboration, and mediation approaches to address conflicts and disagreements that may arise during the facilitation of an IEP meeting or collaboration with other professionals.

Prerequisite: SED 606

Using research-based theories, methods, and strategies designed for students with disabilities, aligned with CA-CCSS and the California ELA/ELD framework, Education Specialist candidates will learn to assess, instruct and provide interventions for foundational listening, speaking, reading, writing, and language for all learners in the PK-12 classrooms.

Prerequisite: SED 607

Course provides substantive, research-based instruction that effectively prepares candidates to assess and teach literacy to students with MMSN and ESN. Through a case study, candidates will administer and analyze a variety of reading/writing assessments, develop IEP goals specific to data from the assessments and plan lessons that promote student access and achievement in mastering literacy standards.

Prerequisite: ITL 512

Analysis of how elementary children think and learn mathematics. Research-based approaches enabling students to think critically and develop math proficiency. Developmentally appropriate instructional strategies for an integrative approach to teaching mathematics using content areas of visual and performing arts, social science, and STEM.

Prerequisite: ITL 516

Research-based assessments and strategies within multi-tiered systems address the behavioral and social emotional needs of learners with disabilities. Will explore development of functional behavioral assessments, positive behavior support plans, and behavioral intervention plans. Will work collaboratively to minimize disruptive behaviors and increase adaptive behaviors and social emotional learning skills.

Prerequisite: SED 610

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the professional, legal, and ethical practices for educators. Candidates explore in-depth federal/case law that contribute to the placement, instruction, and service delivery in addition to the privacy issues in special education. The course addresses federal and state courts’ interpretation of statutes and regulations of special education service delivery, IEPs, transition plans, and related services for learners with mild to moderate support needs and with extensive support needs.

Prerequisite: SED 615

This course provides candidates with knowledge in identifying students with mild/moderate disabilities and their needs for service delivery, placement, IEP development and instruction. The course will address how to apply knowledge of the purposes, characteristics, and appropriate uses of different types of assessments and how to apply evidenced-based high leverage practices with a range of student needs. Candidates will recognize how mild/moderate disabilities affect students in their ability to learn the California core curriculum. In addition, candidates will examine effective strategies to coordinate and collaborate with paraprofessionals and other adults in the classroom.

Prerequisite: MMS 617

Emphasize the use of formal and informal assessments and curriculum-based measures to determine learning strengths/challenges of students with MMSN. Examine appropriate selection of assessment tools and methods, administration, and analysis of data to determine present level of performance, write IEP goals, and plan instruction for students with MMSN.

Prerequisite: MMS 623

Examine the roles and responsibilities of the educational specialist in a multi-disciplinary team to develop effective multi-tiered intervention plans. Design a comprehensive process for the collaboration and coordination of services and transition support across grade levels for students with MMSN.

Prerequisite: MMS 623; Corequisite: MMS 625A OR; MMS 627A

Student Teaching “A” Courses Description: This is the culminating course taken concurrently with Student Teaching for preliminary authorization programs in Mild/Moderate Support Needs or Extensive Support Needs -Moderate/Severe. The seminar courses are 2.25 quarter units each and will be taken concurrently with clinical practice courses.

Prerequisite: MMS 623; Corequisite: MMS 629A OR; MMS 627A

First half (8 weeks) of supervised student teaching for M/M authorization. Establishment of 300 of 600 total hours. Clinical practice placement in a district-university approved California TK-12 special education classroom. Grading is S, U or In Progress (IP).

Prerequisite: MMS 629A; Corequisite: MMS 625B OR; MMS 629B

Student Teaching “B” Courses Description: This is the culminating course taken concurrently with Student Teaching for preliminary authorization programs in Mild/Moderate Support Needs or Extensive Support Needs -Moderate/Severe. The seminar courses are 2.25 quarter units each and will be taken concurrently with clinical practice courses.

Prerequisite: MMS 625A; Corequisite: MMS 629B

Second half (8 weeks) of student teaching experience toward the M/M authorization. Establishment of 300 of 600 total hours. Clinical practice placement in a district-university approved California TK-12 special education classroom. Grading is S, U or In Progress (IP).

Prerequisite: MMS 623; Corequisite: MMS 625A OR; MMS 627A

Student Teaching “A” Courses Description: This is the culminating course taken concurrently with Student Teaching for preliminary authorization programs in Mild/Moderate Support Needs or Extensive Support Needs -Moderate/Severe. The seminar courses are 2.25 quarter units each and will be taken concurrently with clinical practice courses.

Prerequisite: MMS 623; Corequisite: MMS 629A

First half (4 months) of intern experiences as a teacher of record required for an Education Specialist Credential with a M/M authorization. Grading is S, U or In Progress (IP)

Prerequisite: MMS 629A; Corequisite: MMS 625B OR; MMS 629B

Student Teaching “B” Courses Description: This is the culminating course taken concurrently with Student Teaching for preliminary authorization programs in Mild/Moderate Support Needs or Extensive Support Needs -Moderate/Severe. The seminar courses are 2.25 quarter units each and will be taken concurrently with clinical practice courses.

Prerequisite: MMS 627A; Corequisite: MMS 629B

Second half (4 months) of intern experiences as a teacher of record in second half of practicum experience required for an Education Specialist Credential with a M/M authorization. Grading is S, U or In Progress (IP)

Continued Internship Support for Mild/Moderate teacher candidates, which provides targeted support for their internship as required by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC). This 4-month (2.25 units) course will be repeated by individual interns until they have successfully completed all the credential requirements for the Preliminary Education Specialist Credential with Authorization in Mild/Moderate. Does not grant graduate units towards graduate degree.

Continued Internship Support for Mild/Moderate teacher candidates, which provides targeted support for their internship as required by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC). This 4-month (2.25 units) course will be repeated by individual interns until they have successfully completed all the credential requirements for the Preliminary Education Specialist Credential with Authorization in Mild/Moderate. Does not grant graduate units towards graduate degree.

Continued Internship Support for Mild/Moderate teacher candidates, which provides targeted support for their internship as required by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC). This 4-month (2.25 units) course will be repeated by individual interns until they have successfully completed all the credential requirements for the Preliminary Education Specialist Credential with Authorization in Mild/Moderate. Does not grant graduate units towards graduate degree.

Continued Internship Support for Mild/Moderate teacher candidates, which provides targeted support for their internship as required by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC). This 4-month (2.25 units) course will be repeated by individual interns until they have successfully completed all the credential requirements for the Preliminary Education Specialist Credential with Authorization in Mild/Moderate. Does not grant graduate units towards graduate degree.

This course is designed to provide the student with the basic knowledge and skills required to read, interpret and evaluate both quantitative and qualitative educational research in order to determine if research results have implications for program, curriculum or instructional decisions.

Apply knowledge, skills, and dispositions to complete a culminating project. Candidates will identify a topic of interest in their classroom, school, or district; conduct a review of the literature on the topic of their choice; and design a process to gather information on the topic. Grading is H, S, or U only. Course is eligible for In Progress (IP) grade.