COURSE OUTLINE IN FOUNDATION OF SPECIAL AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION COURSE TITLE : Foundation of Special and Inclusive Education
COURSE CODE : EFSIEDUC NUMBER OF UNITS : 3 UNITS
CONTACT HOURS : 3 HOURS PREREQUISITE : NONE
COURSE REQUIREMENTS : Attendance Quizzes Major Exams
Recitation and Participation in Discussions Group Reports
Video Presentations
COURSE DESCRIPTION :
This course discusses the philosophies, theories and legal bases of inclusive and special needs education, typical and atypical development of children, learning
characteristics of students with special educational needs (gifted and talented, learners with difficulty seeing, learners with difficulty hearing, learners with difficulty
communicating, learners with difficulty walking/moving, learners with difficulty
remembering/focusing, learners with difficulty with self-care) and strategies in teaching and managing these learners in the regular classes.
COURSE CONTENT
PRELIM and MIDTERM FINALS
1. Orientation/Classroom Policies 2. Understanding Diversity
Loden’s Diversity Wheel
Ability (and Disability) as a Dimension of Diversity 3. Rules in making poster and slogan
about embracing diversity 4. Special and Inclusive Education
Historical and Sociocultural Foundations
Philosophical Foundations
Legal Foundation 5. Making Schools inclusive
8. Part II. Other disabilities (Autism, Emotional Disturbance, Intellectual Disability, Multiple disabilities, Speech or Language Impairment) 9. Encouraging others to be inclusive
teachers.
Creating inclusive cultures
Producing inclusive policies
Evolving inclusive practices 6. Components of Special and
Inclusive Education
Childfind
Assessment
Placement
Accommodations and Curricular Modification
Parent Involvement 7. Part I. Physical (Orthopedic
impairment, other health impairment including ADHD, Deaf-blindness, Deafness, Hearning impairment, Traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment) and Learning
Disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia, and other learning issues)
GRADING SYSTEM (Campus ++):
Class Standing: 70%
Major Exams: 30%
Passing Percentage for Professional and major subjects: 60%
REFERENCES:
Baglieri, S. (2017). Disability studies and the inclusive classroom: critical practices for embracing diversity in education. New York: Routledge.
Briggs, S. (2016). Meeting special educational needs in secondary classrooms:
inclusion and how to do it. London: Routledge.
Bryant, D. P. (2017). Teaching students with special needs in inclusive classrooms. USA: Sage Publications.
Gedge, N. (2016). Inclusion for primary school teachers. London: Bloomsbury.
Karten, T. J. (2015). Inclusion strategies that work! : researched-based methods for the classroom. California: Corwin, Thousand Oaks.
Online References
15 Differentiated Instruction Strategies. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbofSpSQR3c.
“Inclusion Working in 2015”. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4B4CGopmZw.
DepED (2009). DO 72, s. 2009. Retrieved from http://deped.gov.ph/orders/do-72- s-2009 .
GMA 7 (n.d.). Jessica Soho’s “The rare case of poreless skin in four siblings” .Retrieved from https://youtu.be/-hSsV2H2bOk.
GMA 7 (n.d.). Jessica Soho’s “Ang tatlong magkakapatid na iisa lang ang laki”
Retrived : https://youtu.be/qEcDkPpG4iQ.
Tips and strategies for effective differentiation. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVRYSC8YyYA.
