EDU 645 Administration of Special Education This course includes a study of federal and state laws and regulations mandating the provision of special education and related services to children with disabilities. District leaders are responsible for guaranteeing access to designated curriculum and providing equitable opportunity for all children to learn. Candidates will gain knowledge, skills and dispositions needed for EDU 640 Curriculum and Assessment complying with Section 504, ADA, and other significant state and This course builds leadership knowledge, skills and dispositions federal laws addressing student rights to a free and appropriate in PK-12 curricula development and assessment. District-level public education along with the processes needed for the delivery leadership should carry the vision for the primary responsibility of services for exceptional needs at the school district level. (3 s.h.) schools have toward a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Leadership in PK-12 curricula includes strategic planning for EDU 650 Educational Statistics curriculum impact, writing school board policies and regulations, In this course statistical techniques will be treated as tools that are applying decision-making skills to curricular issues in light of used not only to analyze and organize information but to make historical and regulatory influences, budgeting for curricula inferences from the data. The course will assist the participant relevance and change, managing staff development, assessing in organizing and emphasizing the correct use of statistics by curricula effectiveness and preparing leaders to integrate faith exposing the participant to discussions and exercises in the in learning. This course emphasizes all components of the USF methods and applications of statistics. (3 s.h.) "Educator as Developing Professional Curriculum Model" as the roles relate to effective curriculum and instruction. (3 s.h.) and federal legislators, and government agencies. Students are introduced to different approaches of educational politics and policy making including macro- and micro-politics. Strategies are studied and practiced to influence and relate public policy initiatives to student welfare and the district’s vision, mission and priorities in the larger contexts of education. (3 s.h.)
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educational specialist