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Dec 05, 2025
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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog
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EDUC 0571 - Special Education Curriculum
Credits: 3
This graduate course offers a foundation in special education curriculum design, development, and implementation. Course participants will investigate how special educators design and teach units reflecting high expectations that are anchored in rich content and authentic learning and assessment experiences. Culturally responsive curricula and teaching practices that meet the needs of all learners are explored and implemented through readings, discussions, and guided activities in unit and lesson development. Differentiationa dn Universal Design for Learning (UDL) are practices applied to a backwards design approach to curriculum development. The dual mandate of inclusion and meeting individual needs requires that special educators must develop a wide array of subject matter knowledge, develop skills in instructional approaches which support differentiations, use a variety of assessment tools, and analyze the results in the design of effective and rigorous standards-based units of instruction. As part of the course, students develop a unit and apply course knowledge, skills, and undersandings. In their field placements, student construct and implement lessons informed by assessments. Throughout the course, students engage in critical reflection upon all curricular components including cultural, linguistic, and community responsiveness; the maintenance of a safe and well-managed classroom; and the development of a collaborative learning environment for students, families, and team member.
Thirty hours of field experience in an approved special education setting for students with moderate disabilities is required.
Prerequisites: B or better in EDUC 0319/EDUC 0519 and EDUC 0221/EDUC 0540 , or permission of the coordinator.
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