EDU 325 Assessment and Intervention Practices for Young Children with Mild Disabilities
Requires pre-service educators to acquire terminology used in assessment and to interpret information from formal and informal assessments to plan instruction within the three-tiered Response to Instruction Model. The legal provisions and ethical principles regarding the assessment of individuals, including those from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, will be examined. National, state, and local accommodations and modifications to assessment and instruction will be addressed. The effects of culture and linguistic differences on growth and development of young children will be discussed in addition to the design of evidence-based interventions for children who may be at risk for learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia. Pre-service educators will apply strategies from multiple theoretical approaches to support individuals with disabilities or socio-cultural differences in the general curriculum in addition, specific characteristics of Tier 2 and Tier 3 instruction, such as progress monitoring, and specially designed instruction will be explored. Extensive use of video footage of actual classroom instruction will be used to analyze and evaluate teaching practices. This class is a component of the preparation for pre-service educators to assess and instruct students considered at risk or with disabilities in EDU 345 and EDU 346.