Master of Arts in Education Focus in Special Education (With License) – Online
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MAE in Education Focus in Special Education Curriculum
The special education focus provides a framework that will empower you to enhance the classroom experience and learning capabilities of students with disabilities. You’ll be positioned as a leader that acknowledges the equal right of every learner to an appropriate and challenging education. As a student in the program, you’ll complete your courses online and apply that knowledge in field experiences and full-time clinical practice on-ground in schools. You’ll gain knowledge of and use evidence-based practices, curriculum, and assessments that target strengths and needs of individual learners.
Wisconsin DPI Licensure: Special Education for Cross Categorical (801) and Specific Learning Disabilities (811).
Core Courses
Master of Arts in Special Education majors will take courses covering topics such as:
- Exceptional education etiology
- Collaboration and co-teaching
- Literacy intervention
- Social-emotional support and mental health
- IEPs and transition plans
Program Learning Outcomes
After completion of this program, candidates will:
- Our graduates are knowledgeable of current best practice in instructional strategies for students with disabilities; including differentiation of content, literacy research, social emotional learning and developing intensive interventions. They are critical and creative thinkers capable of effectively planning, implementing, and teaching with Individual Education Plans to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities.
- Our graduates understand how children learn and grow. They are reflective practitioners who embrace social justice with the understanding that all children can learn when provided appropriate instruction.
- Our graduates are effective communicators, understanding the value of clear, effective, and compassionate interactions with students as well as effective collaboration with families, colleagues and the community.
- Our graduates are able to reason quantitatively and qualitatively, evaluating student learning via a broad range of assessment methodologies in order to analyze data and develop learning plans that will effectively support student social, emotional and academic growth to prepare students to become valued, contributing citizens in our communities.
- Our graduates are digitally literate and demonstrate their skills using current technology solutions to create, adapt, enhance and personalize learning for students which supports access to, participation in, and success with the general curriculum as well as increased social interaction with peers, teachers and families.
Special Education Program Mission
The mission of the Special Education Program is to develop teacher leaders who acknowledge that every learner has an equal right to an appropriate and challenging education and that every child will develop and learn. Our program emphasizes an equal responsibility for learning shared between the teacher and student. Paramount to the successful growth of a child are positive teacher/student relationships and knowledge and use of evidence-based practices, curriculum and assessments that target strengths and needs of individual learners.
Professional Standards
International Society for Technology in Education
ISTE Standards for Teachers
ISTE-T Standards
State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Guidelines
Wisconsin Teacher Standards
WI Teacher Standards
Admission to the Program
- Earned a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75 of 4.00 upon completion baccalaureate degree.
- The student will meet one of the following criteria:
a) Reported passing scores on all components of the Praxis Core Test
Scores
Reading 156
Writing 162
Mathematics 150
b) ACT score of 23 or SAT score of 1030 (These scores must be less than 10 years old.)
c) Score of “Sufficient” or higher of all sections listed below of the Next-Generation Accuplacer Exam:
i) Writing 250
ii) Reading 250
iii) Arithmetic 276
iv) Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics 250
- Proficiency in Oral Communication course (grade of “C” or better). [This course will be used in GPA calculation for Demonstration of Content Knowledge: Oral Communication.]
- Proficiency in College English (writing) course (grade of “C” or better) [This course will be used in GPA calculation for Demonstration of Content Knowledge: Written Communication. Literature courses will not be used to fulfill this requirement unless it is indicated on the student’s transcript that the course was “writing intensive”.]
Progression Requirements
- The student must meet one of the following:
a) A passing score on the standardized test(s) approved by the state superintendent related to the declared program that will result in licensure
b) A 3.0 GPA or higher in the content area to be licensed, based on a transcript review of undergraduate degree and required content-related methods courses.
For those teacher candidates who opt to use the Content Area GPA in lieu of the Praxis II score, a transcript review will be conducted by the Director of Teacher Education and Licensure Officer upon application for Clinical Practice to verify required GPA.
**Must be completed prior to student teaching TCH 665**
- A passing score on the Wisconsin Foundations of Reading Test (Pearson)
**Must be completed prior to student teaching TCH 665**
- EdTPA Portfolio