Learning Outcomes

Special Education Learning Outcomes

• Understand how exceptionalities may interact with development and learning and use this knowledge to provide meaningful and challenging learning experiences for individuals with exceptionalities.
• Create safe, inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments so that individuals with exceptionalities become active and effective learners and develop emotional well-being, positive social interactions, and self-determination.
• Use knowledge of general and specialized curricula to individualize learning for individuals with exceptionalities.
• Use multiple methods of assessment and data sources in making educational decisions.
• Select, adapt, and use a repertoire of evidence-based instructional strategies to advance learning of individuals with exceptionalities.
• Use foundational knowledge of the field and their professional ethical principles and practice standards to inform special education practice, to engage in lifelong learning, and to advance the profession.
• Collaborate with families, other educators, related service providers, individuals with exceptionalities, and personnel from community agencies in culturally responsive ways to address the needs of individuals with exceptionalities across a range of learning experiences.

School of Education Undergraduate Program Learning Outcomes

• Candidates demonstrate competence in their respective content areas and/or area of certification in combination with competence in liberal arts and sciences
• Candidates engage in reflective practice in their coursework and experiences in the field.
• Candidates demonstrate knowledge of research-based teaching practices appropriate to their content area and proficiency with a variety of effective instructional methodologies.
• Candidates demonstrate knowledge of research-based teaching practices appropriate to their content area and proficiency with a variety of effective instructional methodologies.
• In acknowledgement of the impact of diversity on student learning and behavior, candidates address socio-cultural differences, differentiate instruction, and create modifications appropriate for the academic, motivational, behavioral and interest needs of students.
• Candidates use technology for administrative and instructional tasks.
• Candidates plan effective instruction, learning experiences, and school and classroom environments that allow all students to achieve.
• Candidates demonstrate leadership in collaborating with colleagues, families and students in responding to real life problems in a multicultural society.