Teaching Special Populations

This course will prepare the teacher candidate to work with special populations including, but not limited to, English Language Learners, Special Education students (including gifted and talented), 504 Student, diverse socio-economic groups, and diverse cultural groups in the regular classroom. The teacher candidate will develop lesson plans addressing the needs of these special populations using effective strategies developed through appropriate educational research. A candidate must earn a final grade of B (3.0, minimum) in the course in order to receive credit. If not, the course will need to be repeated. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.