Early Childhood Development and Learning: Diverse Children and Families with Annotation in Severe/Multiple Disabilities with prior NYS Certification in an area other than Early Childhood (MSEd) 3-Year Course Sequence and Program Tracker
Academic Plan: ECSB2-MSED
Academic Subplan: ECSMDANYSM
Credits: 43-46
Credits can only be waived, not exempted in this program. This is a two-year course sequence and program tracker.
Potential Summer Start
Otherwise add this course to Fall 1.
Courses
May be waived with proof of prior special education coursework:
- SPED 70000 – Issues and Practices in Educating Students with Disabilities (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
Fall Semester 1
Courses
- ECC 70300 – Early Childhood Curriculum: Birth through Grade 2 (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPED 79000 – Foundations and Educational Implications of Severe/Multiple Disabilities (3 credits)
Winter Session 1
Courses
- ECC 71200 – Pre-Student Teaching Field Placements in Early Childhood (1 credit, includes Fieldwork hours)
Spring Semester 1
Courses
- SPEDE 77000 – Individualized Planning, Implementation and Progress Monitoring in Early Childhood (Birth through PreK) Environments and Curricula (3 credits, includes Fieldwork Hours)
- SPED 79200 – Language Development and Alternative Communication Systems for Learners with Low Incidence Disabilities: Severe Disabilities including Deafblindness (3 credits, includes fieldwork hours)
Exam
Passing is required prior to beginning student teaching or practicum.
- Content Specialty Test (CST) – Multisubject Early Childhood.
Fall Semester 2
Courses
- SPEDE 77200 – Positive Behavior Support (PBS) and Its Application to Young Children with Special Needs (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPED 79100 – Alternative Assessment for Learners with Low Incidence Disabilities: Visual Impairment, Deafblindness, and Severe Disabilities (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPEDE 77100 – Autism Spectrum Disorder: Characteristics and Implications for Intervention (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
Spring Semester 2
Courses
- SPEDE 77300 – Families, Parenting, and Family-Professional Partnerships: Theories, Research, and Practices (1.5 credits – part 1, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPED 70650 – Strategies and Curriculum Adaptations for Learners with Severe/Multiple Disabilities (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPED 70700 – Research Seminar: Issues in Special Education (3 credits)
Summer Session 2-1
Exams
Passing is required prior to beginning student teaching or practicum.
- Content Specialty Test (CST) – Students with Disabilities
Fall Semester 3
Courses
- SPED 74600 – Educational Implications of Learners Who Are Deafblind (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPEDE 77300 – Families, Parenting, and Family-Professional Partnerships: Theories, Research, and Practices (1.5 credits – part 2, includes Fieldwork hours)
Student Teaching or Practicum
- SPEDE 79550 – Pre K, Student Teaching in Early Childhood Special Education with an Annotation in Severe Multiple Disabilities (2 credits)
OR
- SPEDE 79552 – Pre K, Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education with an Annotation in Severe Multiple Disabilities (2 credits)
Spring Semester 3
Courses
- SPED 79300 – Total Communication for Learners with Severe/Multiple Disabilities (2 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
- SPEDE 77400 – Adaptations for Individual Learners Across the K-2 Curriculum (3 credits, includes Fieldwork hours)
Student Teaching or Practicum
- SPEDE 79550 – K-2, Student Teaching in Early Childhood Special Education with an Annotation in Severe Multiple Disabilities (2 credits)
OR
- SPEDE 79552 – K-2, Practicum in Early Childhood Special Education with an Annotation in Severe Multiple Disabilities (2 credits)