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EDEX 5550: Supervised Internship in Special Education: WCMA Summer Institute 1
This course will be held in July over a three day period. Topics being covered will include: mentoring relationships, collaboration among educators and administrators, inclusive practices, classroom management, and special education law updates. Some institute sessions will be workshops. Presenters for the Summer Institute will include UW Special Education professors and local and national experts. The WCMA program of study includes two Summer Institutes.
EDEX 5300: Foundations of Special Education 3
This course involves the application of developmental theories of teaching and programming strategies as well as formal and informal assessment methods for students with disabilities.
EDEX 5050: Advanced Mental Disabilities 3
This course provides information and assessment/teaching techniques for use with students with mental disabilities. Students will acquire a comprehensive knowledge base related to teaching students with mental disabilities, evaluation techniques designed to identify individual with mental disabilities, multidisciplinary evaluation team approach in the area of teaching students with mental disabilities, and methods and strategies designed to assist individuals with mental disabilities in achieving success in school and in life.
EDEX 5350: Psycho-Educational Assessment and Prescriptive Teaching 3
This course involves the administration and interpretation of psycho-educational tests (such as the WAIS, WISC, Binet, ITPA etc.). These tests provide information which is useful to prescriptive programming and the presenting problem resolution.
EDEX 5720: Advanced Special Education Law 3
This course provides prospective special education teachers and support personnel with overview of important case and statutory law in special education. Students will examine the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Application of the components of these laws in the school setting will be emphasized.
EDEX 5770: Advanced Emotional Disabilities 3
This course involves the understanding, systematic assessment, education, and management of individuals who are emotionally disturbed. Each student will develop theoretical knowledge and resulting practical skills by which to understand and manage emotionally disturbed students in the classroom.
EDEX 5710: Advanced Learning Disabilities 3
This course involves an advanced presentation of concepts related to the understanding and instruction of individuals with learning disabilities. By the end of the course, each student will have developed theoretical knowledge and resulting practical skills by which to understand and instruct the student with learning disabilities in the classroom.
EDEX 5630: Advanced Curriculum Materials 3
This course involves the assessment, adaptation, and application of curriculum, and curriculum materials to achieve excellence in the education of students with special needs. The students will gain skills for building and implementing a curriculum for special needs learners, transitioning from assessment to service delivery and identifying, designing, developing, and implementing an appropriate curriculum for a special needs child.
EDEX 5000: Advanced Consultant Teacher Strategies 3
This course represents an opportunity for students to examine and explore a range of consultant concepts in the field of special education. Students will be able to provide and apply: procedures in accomplishing educational gains for learners through mediators; procedures or methods to overcome mediator resistance; functional methods to accomplish specific strategies for improvement in small group communication; consultant conflict management strategies; group and individual decision making processes; problem solving strategies; and team building methods.
EDEX 5750: Advanced Behavior Management and Prescriptive Teaching 3
This course involves the study and application of behavior management techniques to the resolution of a wide variety of learning and behavior problems. Students will research a range of motivation, self control or behavior management models/methods and develop an innovative in-service on a best practice of their choice. (UW Laramie Campus)
EDEX 5830: Advanced Counseling Parents of Exceptional Children 3
This course involves practical and applied techniques and strategies that relate to working with parents of students with disabilities. Students will demonstrate appropriate use of each of the counseling/communication and paraprofessional techniques during live and simulated, individual as well as group, counseling sessions. The focus of the course will be students and/or parents with and without problems, ranging from normal concerns to ED-LD-TBI-MD Disabilities and related symptoms. (UW Laramie Campus)
Regional Forum
Dependent upon funding, the WCMA advising faculty will conduct annual regional focus groups to collect formative information on WCMA participant�s needs and the WCMA program effectiveness. It is anticipated that the Regional Forums will be conducted for one day during the months of December and January. The WCMA program of study includes two regional forums.
Capstone Event
Dependent upon funding, it is anticipated that in July of 2007, all participants who completed the WCMA triadic program will gather to share, renew, refresh, and review how change has been effected through their involvement with the WCMA by bringing what they have learned and accomplished to other educators in the state. The Capstone Event will be held in conjunction with the 2007 WCMA Summer Institute.
