SPED 409 - Management and Program Planning for Special Education

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): SPED 403. Emphasis is placed on students’ development of competence to plan and implement individual, classroom, and school-wide interventions designed to promote appropriate school behavior. Observational methods, behavior promotion, reduction, generalization strategies and interview techniques are reviewed. Collaboration and conferring are emphasized. Applied behavior analysis as well as other non-behavioral approaches will be explored. Discipline and other issues related to management are discussed. Students are required to develop an individual, classroom, and school-wide project(s) that demonstrate their ability to design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of their intervention(s). Record-keeping as a visible tool for monitoring student progress will also be employed.