Learning Outcomes — Special Education

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Knowledge of how special education laws impact students and families by studying the history of laws and by attending special education meetings in local schools.
Understanding of how and when different types of abilities develop and how they can uniquely combine in an individual.
Appreciation of differences in learning and how these differences are one aspect of the richness that diversity brings to a classroom.
Ability to employ instructional strategies, planning, and assessment that will enable all children to learn and reach their potential, using adaptations and technology when needed.
Ability to create a learning environment that fosters autonomy, competence, and belonging.
Knowledge of the range of language development from pre-school through the high school years by analyzing children's language, learning to distinguish between issues of English language learning and difficulties acquiring language more broadly.
Ability and inclination to advocate for special students as members of the larger diverse community, modeling for those students what it is to be a lifelong learner.
Ability and inclination to collaborate with colleagues, having gained the skill of flexibility through repeated collaborative experiences in the pre-service program at Aurora.