MA SNIED

This is a course that focuses on the current implementation of the RA 10533 Enhanced K to 12 Inclusive Education Policy Framework for Basic Education (DO 21, s. 2019) that promotes inclusion of LSEN. It is a terminal course that gives prospective special education teachers the opportunity to apply and synthesize educational theory and teaching strategies and enables students to do the following: a) professionally and ethically perform the duties of a special education teacher; b) demonstrate proficiency in instructional management and specially designed instruction, student engagement and motivation, curriculum planning, learning theory, problem solving in an educational setting, c) select, adapt, and use instructional strategies, adaptations, assessments, and materials according to the characteristics of the learner and d) apply knowledge about the characteristics of children with disabilities to educational practices in the school setting. At the end of the term, students are expected to demonstrate conceptual and procedural knowledge in the scholarship of teaching special needs and inclusive education through the preparation of a brief lesson plan that uses UDL and DI formats, a video of a teaching demonstration, and case study and assessment report involving Learners with Special Education Needs.

The course explores key issues concerning the definitions of special needs and inclusion, and national and global perspectives on diversity. It also lays the preliminary groundwork for analyzing the legal, historical, social, and medical frameworks of disability studies, along with the different categories of exceptionality, definitions, etiologies, levels and types; and the effects of disabilities on the social, emotional and psychological development of learners with special needs (LSEN). At the end of the course, the students should be able to demonstrate their knowledge of special and inclusive education through the development of comparative analysis of inclusive practices in local and international settings.

The course explores the nature, principles, practices, perspectives and strategies in relation to the assessment of a diverse student population. Through this course, the students will be assisted in the formulation of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), as well as the development of a more appropriate, balanced and relevant curriculum for learners with special needs (LSEN). At the end of the course, the students should be able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills learned in the course by analyzing and assessing cases of LSEN, and by writing assessment reports, as a basis of traditional and inclusive education placements in the Philippines.