Special Education

• WED SE 584: Inclusive Pedagogy: Foundations
  In this course, students learn high-leverage and culturally relevant educational practices as they apply to the design, delivery, and adaptation of content area instruction. Focuses on bridging these approaches to provide access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities.
• WED SE 593: Practicum/Practicum Equivalent: Moderate Disabilities Licensure Tracks
  Students will demonstrate skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with moderate disabilities (PK-2, PK-8, or 5-12). Student teaching experience (300-hour minimum) and accompanying seminar. Only open to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites and meet all eligibility criteria.
• WED SE 594: Practicum/Practicum Equivalent: Students with Moderate Disabilities, 5-12
  Graduate Prerequisites: Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequ isites. - Students will demonstrate skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with mild/moderate disabilities, grades 5-12. Student teaching experience (300- hour minimum) and accompanying seminar. Only open to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites. 8 cr.
• WED SE 595: Practicum/Practicum Equivalent: Severe Disabilities Licensure Tracks
  Students will demonstrate skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with severe disabilities (PK-2 or all levels). Student teaching experience (300-hour minimum) and accompanying seminar. Only open to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites and meet all eligibility criteria.
• WED SE 596: Practicum with Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SED SE 535 - Students will demonstrate skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with autism spectrum disorders. Student teaching experience (150 hour minimum) and accompanying seminar. Only open to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites. 4 cr.
• WED SE 597: Practicum for Teaching Professionals-Moderate Prek - 8
  Students will demonstrate skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with moderate disabilities, grades PreK-8. Designed for practitioners. Student teaching experience (300-hour minimum) and accompanying seminar. Only open to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites. 4 cr.
• WED SE 598: Practicum for Teaching Professionals-Moderate 5-12
  Students will demonstrate skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with moderate disabilities, grades 5-12. Designed for practitioners. Student teaching experience (300-hour minimum) and accompanying seminar. Only open to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites. 4 cr.
• WED SE 601: Collaborative Approaches to Individualized Education Programming
  This course examines roles and responsibilities of interdisciplinary team members when collaboratively designing, implementing, and evaluating Individualized Educational Programs. Includes a focus on collaborative and culturally competent approaches to engaging with families and students in shared decision-making.
• WED SE 613: Special Education Fieldwork
  Corequisites: WEDSE 615. - Supervised fieldwork for candidates seeking moderate or severe disabilities licensure. Requires a minimum of 150 hours and successful completion of the Gateway assessment.
• WED SE 615: Special Education Fieldwork Seminar: Applying Inclusive Pedagogy
  Corequisites: WEDSE 613. - Seminar for special education fieldwork. Focuses on applying inclusive pedagogy in special education contexts and the DESE Professional Standards for Teachers.
• WED SE 650: Protecting Children’s Well-Being: Understanding through Ecological Systems Theory
  Delves into an intricate web of influences impacting children's well-being through the lens of ecological systems theory. Unravels how risk factors like stress, trauma, and poverty shape critical developmental stages. Examines protective factors that can build children’s resilience and empower professionals to advocate for positive change in children's lives.
• WED SE 693: Practicum in Disabilities Studies
  Through fieldwork experience and accompanying seminar, students develop an understanding of human services agencies serving individuals with disabilities, educational service delivery models, policies, roles and responsibilities, and collaboration. Only open to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. Var cr.
• WED SE 702: Clinical Practice:Special Education Administration
  Graduate Prerequisites: Open only to matriculated students who have completed prerequisites. - *Practicum and Seminar: Special Education Administrator Requires 600 hours of supervised fieldwork (300 hours/4 credits per semester, for two semesters). Students will assume responsibility for both routine activities and special assignments encompassing the four Massachusetts administrative leadership standards: Instructional Leadership, Management and Operations, Family and Community Engagement, and Professional Culture. Open only to candidates for Massachusetts licensure as a special education administrator who have completed at least 16 credits of coursework for initial licensure. 4 cr.
• WED SE 706: Disability, Education, & Society
  Students will examine legal, sociocultural, and historical contexts of disability in society and education, centering first-person experiences, critical frameworks, and self-reflection, such that they can understand and critique special education policies, systems, and practices within these broader contexts.
• WED SE 744: School Administration and Special Needs
  Designed to develop an understanding of administration of special education programs, federal and state legislation and local policies, administrative support for implementation of best practices for pre-referral processes and instructional/behavioral interventions, evaluation of program quality, and supervision/evaluation of staff. Prereq: SE 706. 4 cr.
• WED SE 751: Assessment in Special Education: Procedures
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: SED SE 706 - Designed to develop the knowledge/skills related to the assessment of students who are in or being referred to special education. Includes legal requirements, culturally/linguistically-responsive practices, various assessments in multiple domains, and procedures for administering tests, scoring, interpreting, and reporting. Prereq: SE 706. 4 cr.
• WED SE 760: Special Education: Cognition, Learning, and Behavior
  Designed to develop an understanding of the theories of learning and how these theories have informed the development of instructional and behavior management strategies for students with disabilities. Pre/coreq: SE 706. 2 cr.
• WED SE 805: Research Work in Special Education
  Doctoral students work with faculty to investigate a specific research topic. Register for a minimum of 2 credits. Variable cr.
• WED SE 807: Field Experience
  Graduate Prerequisites: Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequ isites. - Graduate students are involved in field experiences in schools, institutions, clinics, and other human services agencies serving students with disabilities. Students must register for a minimum of 2 credits. 2 cr.
• WED SE 900: Independent Study
  See SED AP 900 for description. Prereq: Approval of advisor. Complete the online Directed Study form. Wheelock Office of Records. Var cr.