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    • 3.00 Credits

      Prerequisite: (TEAS 4001 or 5001 or 6001) and (TEAS 4003 or 5003 or 6003) or Department approval;Description: This course is designed to inform teachers about reading disorders, reading remediation and reading in the Least Restrictive Environment. Students will learn strategies designed to detect and correct these special needs. Alternative modes of instructions are a focus.
    • 3.00 Credits

      Description: The course works consists of in-depth study of the various technologies utilized in Special Education and Rehabilitation. Theories, goals, and intervention strategies for developing and implementing educational environments with assistive technology (AT) for persons with disabilities will be discussed throughout the semester.
    • 3.00 Credits

      Prerequisite: (TEAS 4001 or 5001 or 6001) and (TEAS 4003 or 5003 or 6003) or Department approval;Description: This course will engage participants in mathematics thinking, discussions, and instructional projects to explore theory, understand best practices, and design and implement these strategies in mathematics instruction in grades K-8. It will begin with an exploration of learning theory and best practices advocated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, followed by explorations and the designing of hands-on activities for teaching mathematics to all children including diverse populations and exceptional needs individuals.
    • 2.00 Credits

      Includes strategies for assessing and individualized physical education program planning and implementation for students with disabilities.
    • 4.00 Credits

      Prerequisite: TEAS 4001, 4003 or department approval;Description: This course is designed to give students skills necessary to teach students with physical, health, and multiple disabilities as well as those with emotional and behavioral disorders. The focus will be on the systematic instruction for these students, life skills, transitioning these students, managing behaviors, and medical issues. Students are to complete a 1-hour practicum, spending 30 hours in a Life Skills or Behavioral classroom for those students who are not teaching or a special classroom project for those currently teaching in a special education setting. Course material will be presented via Modules which must be completed in numerical order. Discussion boards will be utilized as part of the Modules.
    • 2.00 Credits

      Description: Includes child growth typical and atypical development; characteristics of developmental disabilities; prenatal; medical issues; assessments.
    • 3.00 Credits

      Prerequisite: Junior standing;Description: Practical approach to supervisory management including functions of planning, organization, staffing, employee motivation; coverage of contemporary issues including legal aspects of supervision, as well as other regulatory concerns, such as occupational safety, health and labor rleations.
    • 3.00 Credits

      Description: This course will enable instructors to identify psychological, physical, educational, medical, behavioral and learning characteristics and needs of individuals with various disabilities, as well as working with students from diverse cultural, social, ethnic and racial backgrounds. It will also include information regarding the modification and adaptation of instruction as it relates to ADA in order to fit individual needs and learning styles. This course will also enable the instructor to develop individualized educational programs with the principles of normalization and the least restrictive environment.
    • 3.00 Credits

      Description: This course will address the Tennessee Statement of Education Teacher Licensure Standards of Professional Education. It will assist instructors in examining various issues related to teaching with internet technology and resources, as well as, learning to evaluate and integrate this technology into teaching and learning online and on-ground. In addition, this course will assist instructors in locating curriculum resources that will support and enhance instruction. The primary focus of this course will address Standards #4,6,11 of the Tennessee Teacher Licensure Standards for Teaching Strategies Communication and Technology.
    • 3.00 Credits

      Description: Teachers as Agents of Change is designed for those students working in a public school environment on the Professional Occupational or Alternative C License. The course is designed to provide an overview of current issues, trends, and problems that are commonplace to teaching in public school settings. Students will engage in analytic learning experiences which focus on: a) teaching in urban, suburban, and rural settings, b) meeting the needs of diverse student populations, c) historical, sociological, and philosophical aspects of education in a diverse society, d) legal, financial, equality/inequality of access and resources, e) governance issues related to public schooling in the U.S., f) developing knowledge and skills regarding professionalism, national and state initiatives, effective teaching, and licensure, and g) action research to improve current practice.