SPED 3333 Teaching STEM for Students with Disabilities

This course targets evidence-based practices for teaching STEM skills to students with disabilities. Specifically, candidates will learn research-validated techniques for teaching content-area vocabulary (e.g., science, history, social studies), study skills, effective use of graphic organizers, and basic and complex mathematical skills.

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Athens: Spring, Demorest: Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify psychological processes associated with struggling readers (e.g., deficits in short-term memory, long-term memory, vocabulary, and organizational strategies).
2. Identify evidence-based instructional strategies for teaching STEM content to students with disabilities.
3. Identify assessment tools used to design and monitor the acquisition of STEM content by students with disabilities.
4. Design an individualized STEM instructional plan that incorporates evidence-based instructional practices, IEP goals, grade-level standards, and/or national organization standards.