Assignment 1: Field Experience A: Planning for Instruction
Details:
Spend at least 4.5 hours to complete this part of the clinical field experience.
Complete two or more field experiences from the Focused Field Experience Activity List A:
FOCUSED FIELD EXPERIENCE ACTIVITY LIST A
- Collaboratively involve the student and family in setting instructional goals. [InTASC 7]
- Collaboratively involve the student and family in monitoring progress for instructional goals. [InTASC 7]
- Use a functional assessment to develop an intervention plan. [InTASC 7]
- Sequence, implement, and evaluate an individualized learning objective. [InTASC 7]
- Collaboratively plan, develop and integrate affective skills within the academic curricula. [InTASC 7]
- Collaboratively plan, develop and integrate social skills within the academic curricula. [InTASC 7]
- Collaboratively plan, develop and integrate life skills within the academic curricula. [InTASC 7]
- Collaboratively plan, develop, select, and implement instructional content, resources, and strategies that respond to cultural, linguistic, and gender differences. [InTASC 7]
- Select and implement instructional and assistive technology into the educational program. [InTASC 7]
- Collaboratively plan and teach a lesson plan one-on-one, small group, or whole class. [InTASC 7]
Across the program, your field experiences must include a mix of K-8 and 9-12 grade level settings, as well as a mix of students that are intellectually disabled, learning disabled, emotionally disabled, have orthopedic impairments, or other health impairments.
Reflect upon your clinical field experience choices in a 250-500-word summary.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
Assignment 2: Professional Development: IEPs, Inclusion, and Team Teaching.
Details:
Create a 15-20 slide professional development presentation for general education teachers on the topics of IEPs, inclusion, and team teaching. Include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter's notes.
Address the following within the presentation:
- Provide a synopsis for each section of an IEP.
- Describe an inclusion classroom setting and when it is beneficial for special education students; include specific examples of special education students appropriately and inappropriately placed in an inclusive setting.
- Describe 3-5 team teaching models and include benefits and drawbacks of each.
- Provide and describe three additional team teaching strategies appropriate for modifications in an inclusive setting.
Use the attached IEP templates to inform the assignment. Support your presentation with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
While APA format is not required for the body of the assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.