EDUC637 - Meaningful Inclusive Instruction and Co-Teaching

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe and explain the characteristics of a learning community and reflect on their personal attitudes, beliefs and values.
2. Select appropriate strategies that transform a classroom from a teaching organization to a learning organization that promotes a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
3. Understand and apply the legal, ethical and moral impetus for inclusion of students with diverse learning needs in the classroom
4. Identify the learning needs of diverse learners including those with disabilities, gifted/talented, English Language Learners and those with delayed literacy skills
5. Support the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning.
6. Create opportunities for student success through differentiation of content, process and products in both assessments and learning activities.
7. Articulate the characteristics of classroom management and organization that create an environment that is conducive to learning.
8. Recognize the value of continuous assessment and create a variety of assessments in order to determine student understanding
9. Apply a variety of strategies to instructional planning in order to meet the learning needs of all students in the classroom.
10. Evaluate and apply collaborative teaching models to foster student learning in the inclusive classroom.
11. Understand and apply the individual prerequisites and classroom dynamics necessary to successfully co-teach in the inclusive classroom
12. Understand the difference between collaboration, co-teaching, and consultative models.