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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Educ 376-3 ?
Special Topics: Teaching Students with Mild Mental Handicaps
Summer Session, 1989
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Instructor: Dave Carter
(August 17 - 26)
M/T/W/Th/F/S at
9:00 am -
11:00
pm
Location: UBC-Jericho Hill School
Prerequisite: ?
Educ. 401/402 or equivalent teacher training
Topics Include:
Educ 376-3 is designed to familiarize the student with a wide range of topics associated
with the education of the mildly intelectually impaired student. In addition to a general
consideration of the aetiology, incidence, and prevalence of such students, a number of
special topics directly related to instructional programming will be considered in detail.
These will include:
1.
current research on diagnostic and placement error, with emphasis on the use of
the multi-factor diagnostic model;
2.
strategies for pre-referral intervention by regular education personnel;
3.
strategies for the design and implementation of Individualized Education
Programs (IEP's);
4.
the use of curriculum based assessment (CBA) strategies in assessing learning
needs, designing curriculum, and monitoring progress;
5.
selection and use of norm and criterion referenced assessment instruments to
compliment program planning and monitoring.
In addition to these instructional topics, consideration will be given to two important
recent developments relevant to the education of mildly intellectually impaired
students. These are:
1.
the Regular Education Initiative (currently being implemented in the United
States under a federal mandate) with reference to it's possible implications for
Canadian special education;
2.
the potential impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the
education of the mildly intellectually impaired.
Course Requirements:
There is no textbook for the course. Instead, a series of readings taken from the
current literature will be provided. Two pre-readings will be required, these will focus
on the Regular Education Initiative and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Assignments:
Students will be graded on the following basis:
Quizzes (2 - 15% each) ?
20%
Assignment**Final
examination
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40%
30%
Participation ?
100/0
Total
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100%
** Students may elect 1 of 3 possible assignments:
a.
a research paper on an approved topic
b.
a response to any 1 of the readings, or
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a practical assignment based on the application of topics studied
to a school situation (classroom, program, or individual student)
