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  • Parent Involvement Strategies that Enhance Student Achievement (Summer 2010)
    This course requires an enrollment key

    This course is designed to inform both regular and special education teachers about ways in which to invite and sustain parent involvement in your schools and programs. The course uses resources from Improving Relationships & Results: Building Family School Partnerships which were developed by NationalCenter for Special Education Accountability Monitoring (NCSEAM) in collaboration with the Future of School Psychology Task Force on Family School Partnerships. Throughout the course you will explore a variety or resources and strategies to build and sustain a positive partnership with the parents of your students. As a final course project, you will design a plan for implementing at least three involvement strategies throughout the school year.

    Improving Relationships & Results: Building Family School Partnerships

    NationalCenter for Special Education Accountability Monitoring (NCSEAM) www.monitoringcenter.lsuhsc.edu

    Future of School Psychology Task Force on Family School Partnerships www.accountabilitydata.org.

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Special Education But Were Afraid to Ask (Summer 2009)
    This course requires an enrollment key
    This course provides an opportunity for elementary school teachers to gain an understanding of the special education process and to explore their role in that process in order to support instruction and learning in the classroom. Throughout the course, participants will become familiar with special education requirements, timelines and resources, explore strategies for collaboration and communication with other professionals and families, and enhance their ability to meet the needs of students with IEPs in their classrooms. This course is premised on the belief that students with disabilities are students first and that good instruction for all students is based on being responsive to individual learning needs.
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Special Education But Were Afraid to Ask (Winter 2009)
    This course requires an enrollment key
    This course provides an opportunity for elementary school teachers to gain an understanding of the special education process and to explore their role in that process in order to support instruction and learning in the classroom. Throughout the course, participants will become familiar with special education requirements, timelines and resources, explore strategies for collaboration and communication with other professionals and families, and enhance their ability to meet the needs of students with IEPs in their classrooms. This course is premised on the belief that students with disabilities are students first and that good instruction for all students is based on being responsive to individual learning needs.
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Special Education But Were Afraid to Ask (Winter 2010)
    This course requires an enrollment key
    This course provides an opportunity for elementary school teachers to gain an understanding of the special education process and to explore their role in that process in order to support instruction and learning in the classroom. Throughout the course, participants will become familiar with special education requirements, timelines and resources, explore strategies for collaboration and communication with other professionals and families, and enhance their ability to meet the needs of students with IEPs in their classrooms. This course is premised on the belief that students with disabilities are students first and that good instruction for all students is based on being responsive to individual learning needs.
  • Special Students in Regular Classrooms: Technology, Teaching and Universal Design (Fall 2009)
    This course allows guest users to enter  This course requires an enrollment key

    This workshop provides an introduction to the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and strategies for implementing a UDL approach in instructional settings. Universal Design for Learning is an approach to teaching and learning and the development of curriculum and assessment that draws on current brain research and new media technologies to respond to individual differences. This workshop is designed to acquaint participants with UDL principles and provide practical, hands-on experience using software tools and digital media for learning support. Participants will explore how these tools can be incorporated into their classroom practice and plan a lesson that uses these tools.

  • Teaching and Assessing Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities - (Spring 2010)
    This course requires an enrollment key
    This course will provide the online course participant an opportunity to collaborate with other professionals and parents to gain insight into the learning styles of students with significant cognitive disabilities and planning skills necessary to provide them with a successful learning experience. The online participant will be able to answer the question why assessment is important prior to the design of lessons for these students. Additionally, participants will gain hands on experience supported by classmates and instructors to include these students in the general education curriculum in a meaningful way in any setting in which the student is placed. At the end of the course, the course participant will have considered a wide variety of parental and professional input in strengthening his/her own approach to instructing these students. The online learner will establish criteria for mastery and adapt a lesson or activity for a learner with significant cognitive disabilities.
  • Teaching/Assessing Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities in the Classroom (Spring 2009)
    This course allows guest users to enter  This course requires an enrollment key
    This course will provide participants with an opportunity to collaborate with other professionals and parents to gain insight into the learning styles of students with significant cognitive disabilities and planning skills necessary to provide them with a successful learning experience. Participants will be able to address why assessment is important prior to the design of lessons for these students. Additionally, participants will gain hands on experience, supported by classmates and instructors, to include these students in the general education curriculum in a meaningful way regardless of the setting in which the student is placed. Participants will consider a wide variety of parental and professional input that strengthens their approach to instructing these students. Learners will establish criteria for mastery and adapt a lesson or activity for a learner with significant cognitive disabilities.