This course offers students hand-on experience in special schools, special classes and in regular schools where children with Special Needs (CSNs) are being mainstreamed. It aims to provide them with opportunities to apply the theories and principles, methods and techniques learned in teaching CSNs in actual classroom setting. Discussion, seminars, and conferences are integrated to explore the relationship between pedagogical theory and research, and their relationship to practice in special schools.
Under the supervision of the college instructor and cooperating teachers, the students are expected to develop all the personal and professional skill, competence and values essential for a socially responsible teacher to CSNs in the national and global communities.
Course Objectives:
Provided
with varied experiences, students are expected to: 1.
Broaden
their knowledge of the total school program and its provisions for exceptional
learners.
2.
Provide
the student teacher opportunities to experience a wide range of activities
involve in teaching CSNs.
3.
Enable
them to put into practice what they have learned formally as well as formally
to make them effective special education teachers.
4.
Utilize
research output and the web in the planning and implementation of pedagogical
activities for these children.
5.
Realize
the value of their role as teachers and advocates for children with special
needs.
6.
Present
an Action Research on the emerging issues for students w/ special needs.
