Exceptional Learners Program
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Program Objectives
Candidates will successfully complete a comprehensive licensure program for mild intervention that will equip them to be effective world changers in the field of special education. The program will permit candidates to seek licensure from the State of Indiana in Exceptional Needs: Mild Intervention. Candidates will demonstrate high levels of skill competency and professionalism that will lead to quality services for students with disabilities. These skills will also permit candidates to develop collaborations between other professionals, families, and students with disabilities in order to impact positive changes in the field.
- Content/Subject Matter: Candidates will substantiate, in exceptional needs settings, growth in the knowledge and skills in development and application of curriculum.
- Practice Reflective Assessment: Candidates will demonstrate the ability to select and administer appropriate assessments and to analyze their findings in order to insure quality instruction and behavior modification for students with exceptional needs.
- Professional Development: Candidates will show proficiency in the ability to select appropriate instructional strategies and materials and implement them effectively to provide quality instruction for students with exceptional needs.
- Management of Time, Classroom, and Behavior: Candidates will express knowledge of behavioral interventions and the temperament, values and dispositions necessary for their ethical implementation with students with exceptional needs.
- Building Learning and Services Networks: Candidates will exhibit skills and initiative in collaboratively working with students, their parents, and members of the professional community to provide appropriate education and wrap around services for students with exceptional needs.
- Rights and Responsibilities: Candidates will confirm an understanding of and compliance with the legal responsibilities inherent in teaching students with exceptional needs.
- Implementing Instructional Effectiveness: Candidates will apply theory and scientifically based methodologies in appropriate settings and audiences.
- Computer Literacy: Candidates will validate competency in the use of classroom technology as well as student assistive technologies for effective instruction that facilitates students' academic and behavioral progress.
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