Inclusion of special education students in the regular classroom is a challenge being faced by teachers in nearly every school system in the nation. The VESC™ online course Special Education-Inclusion addresses some of the core issues facing teachers who instruct students with special educational needs in the regular classroom.
The VESC™ online course Special Education-Inclusion focuses on creating a learning environment that supports the educational progress of special education students in a regular classroom, as well as provides guidance on specific strategies for teaching curriculum content. Other topics include working with parents and behavior management. This course provides members of co-teaching teams opportunities to reflect on, and adapt their current practice to ensure they are maximizing their effectiveness in meeting the needs of the students they teach.
This online course provides in-depth exercises, reflective questions, readings, and external information resources to make learning engaging and meaningful. As they engage in the various activities that comprise the online course, the participants use a variety of interactive strategies; these strategies are simple, but highly structured. These same strategies are to be used with students in the classroom to develop their communication and higher-order thinking skills.
TOPICS COVERED IN THE ONLINE COURSE
SPECIAL EDUCATION – INCLUSION
- Learning Environments
- Lesson 1: Safe and Supportive Learning Environments
- Lesson 2: Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
- Lesson 3: Classroom Environment
- Lesson 4: All Students Can and Will Learn in This Classroom
- Behavioral Management
- Lesson 1: Showing Appropriate Behavior
- Lesson 2: Managing the Behavior in the Classroom
- Lesson 3: Developing Strategies to Behave Appropriately
- Developing/Maintaining Successful Teams
- Lesson 1: Collaborative Team Teaching
- Lesson 2: Components of Collaborative Team Teaching
- Lesson 3: Different Strategies of Collaborative Team Teaching
- Planning
- Lesson 1: Planning a Curriculum That Meets All Students’ Needs
- Lesson 2: Planning for Teams
- Lesson 3: Planning for IEP Meetings
- Assessments
- Lesson 1: Accommodations and Modifications of Student Needs
- Lesson 2: Authentic Assessments and Traditional Assessments
- Lesson 3: Performance Assessments
- Lesson 4: Rubrics
- Strategies for Teaching and Learning Curriculum Content
- Lesson 1: Oral Reading
- Lesson 2: Comprehension
- Lesson 3: The Writing Process
- Lesson 4: Literature-Based Reading
- Lesson 5: Vocabulary Development
- Lesson 6: Learning and Studying in Content Areas
- Lesson 7: Higher-Order/Structured Thinking Skills
- Lesson 8: Meta-Cognition
- Lesson 9: Learning Projects
- Lesson 10: Math Development
- Parents as Partners
- Lesson 1: Working with Parents
- Lesson 2: Parental Involvement
- Lesson 3: Parent-Teacher Meetings
- Lesson 4: Homework Issues
REQUIRED TEXTS
Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can use to Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students; by Susan Winebrenner and Pamela Espeland; published by Free Spirit Press
Constructive Communication and Structured Thinking in the Classroom with Graphic Templates for Structured Thinking Skills, Vol. 1 (2 book set); published by VESC™
VESC Implementation Strategies for Constructive Communication and Structured Thinking; published by VESC™
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