Teaching Special Populations

This course meets Florida state standards for teaching students with disabilities. For more information about this requirement, please click here.

This course is designed to assist educators in the K-12 setting and beyond to develop effective and appropriate strategies for working with special populations. Education practitioners will gain insight into the Federal mandates in place for students with disabilities as well as learn to develop appropriate learning plans for these students. Students will participate in several assignments that reinforce the concepts and strategies found within the course modules and must see websites. Learners will create an Individualized Education Plan in order to apply the full body of objectives taught in this course.

Madonna University course number: EDU 5830.49

Graduate participants earn 1 semester hour of graduate credit and will receive a transcript from Madonna University. Professional development participants will receive a certificate of completion for 20 hours of professional developments credit.

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Madonna
University

Professional
Development

Course Schedule

1/14/25 - 2/11/25
3/11/25 - 4/8/25
5/13/25 - 6/10/25
7/8/25 - 8/12/25
9/9/25 - 10/14/25
11/11/25 - 12/9/25

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Objectives
Partner Universities
Important Information
Student Academic Integrity

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Outline

Introduction

Contents:

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Module 1: Addressing NCLB, ADA, and IDEA Mandates

Objectives:

Compare federal mandates specific to the ESE population
Create and Individualized Education Plan

Module 2: Effective Strategies for Teaching Special Populations

Objectives:

Improve upon their current strategies for meeting the needs of diverse populations

Contents:

Strategies for teaching special populations

Module 3: Success for ALL Students

Objectives:

Adapt teaching strategies in order to create learning environments where all students can be successful
Enrich the inclusive learning environment

Contents:

Beliefs that are critical to the success of all students
Enriching the inclusive learning environment

Objectives

Compare federal mandates specific to the ESE population
Create an Individualized Education Plan

Improve upon their current strategies for meeting the needs of diverse populations
Adapt teaching strategies in order to create learning inclusive environments where all students can be successful

Partner Universities

Our Partners are well-established regionally and nationally accredited colleges and universities, recognized for academic excellence and their commitment to teachers.

Important Information

Online 3-graduate credit courses are 13 weeks in length.

On-site weekend courses are held Friday evening from 6:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday/Sunday, 8:30am-5:30pm.

Weekday courses are Monday-Friday from 8:00am- 6:00pm.

It is the responsibility of the student to check with their state, county, district, or school to ensure that all requirements are being met by the course you're taking.

Check the Partner Universities page for specific university information as well as course numbers which are specific to the university partner.

Students are required to purchase their own textbook, the information for which can be found here. If no book is required it will be specified on the list. We have copies of many of the textbooks should you wish to purchase directly from TEI.

Professional development (PD) participants receive a certificate of completion from TEI for 45 hours of PD credit for face to face classes and 60 hours of PD credit for online classes. These certificates are mailed within one week of the end of the class and reflect the course title, dates of attendance, and credit hour information.

Student Academic Integrity

Participants guarantee that all academic class work is original. Any academic dishonesty or plagiarism (to take ideas, writings, etc. from another and offer them as one's own), is a violation of student academic behavior standards as outlined by our partnering colleges and universities and is subject to academic disciplinary action.