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AED 222 Week 1 CheckPoint IDEA 2004 AED 222 Week 1 Assignment Special Education and NCLB AED 222 Week 2 CheckPoint Final Project Matrix AED 222 Week 2 DQ 1 and DQ 2 AED 222 Week 3 CheckPoint Classifying EBD and ADHD AED 222 Week 3 Exercise Final Project Matrix AED 222 Week 3 Assignment The Controversy of Medication AED 222 Week 4 CheckPoint The Life of a Special Education AED 222 Week 4 DQ 1 and DQ 2 AED 222 Week 5 CheckPoint Devices and Practices for Sensory Impairments AED 222 Week 5 Exercise Final Project Matrix AED 222 Week 5 Assignment Supports for TBI Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments AED 222 Week 6 CheckPointChanneling Students into a Gifted Program AED 222 Week 6 DQ 1 and DQ 2 AED 222 Week 7 CheckPoint IEP AED 222 week 7 Exercise Creating a Student Profile for a Mock Case Study AED 222 Week 7 Assignment Channeling Students into Special Services AED 222 Week 8 CheckPoint Blooms Taxonomy Planning Pyramids and Systematic Strategies AED 222 Week 8 DQ 1 and DQ 2 AED 222 Week 9 Final Project Student Profile AED 222 Week 9 Capstone CheckPoint Assignment: Special Education and the Principles of NCLB 2001 Refer to Ch. 2 (pp ) of Special Education for Today’s Teachers. Identify how each of the five core principles of NCLB 2001—strong accountability, expanded flexibility and control, methods based on scientific research, expanded options for parents, and highly qualified teachers—might affect diverse learners, both positively and negatively. AED 222 Entire Course (UOP) AED 222 Week 1 Assignment Special Education and NCLB (UOP)

CheckPoint: IDEA 2004 Watch the Ms. Green Elementary: Professionalism—IDEA video at om.com/az/axia_sped/. om.com/az/axia_sped/ Note. The video may take a few moments to download. CheckPoint: Final Project Matrix Refer to Ch. 6 & 8 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers. Record the following information regarding learning disabilities and mild intellectual disabilities in the appropriate sections of the matrix in Appendix B: AED 222 Week 1 CheckPoint IDEA 2004 (UOP) AED 222 Week 2 CheckPoint Final Project Matrix (UOP)

Discussion Questions After reading Can You Help Me with This Student? on pp. 156–157, how might you, as Juan’s teacher, provide him emotional and instructional support? Have you ever experienced a lack of success despite how much effort you put into succeeding? Do you think you would have benefited from receiving emotional support during the ordeal? Do you remember seeking comfort or help? Assignment: The Controversy of Medication Resources: Ch. 7 & 9 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers and Medicating Kids videos Watch the Medicating Kids videos at ntline/shows/medicating/watch/ ntline/shows/medicating/watch/ AED 222 Week 2 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP) AED 222 Week 3 Assignment The Controversy of Medication (UOP)

CheckPoint: Classifying Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorders Resource: Ch. 7 & 9 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers, Does My Child Have an Emotional or Behavioral Disorder? and Classifying EBD and ADHD at u/axia/aed222mart/E1/Ex _1.htm. u/axia/aed222mart/E1/Ex _1.htm Exercise: Final Project Matrix Resource: Ch. 7 and 9 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers. Record the following information regarding EBD and ADHD in the appropriate sections of the matrix in Appendix B: Definition of the exceptionality Classification criteria and characteristics Prevalence AED 222 Week 3 CheckPoint Classifying EBD and ADHD (UOP) AED 222 Week 3 Exercise Final Project Matrix (UOP

CheckPoint: The Life of a Special Education Teacher Watch the Students to Students: Classroom Application – Severe and Sensory video athttp:// om.com/az/axia_sped/ and review My Profession, My Story: Pat Mims on pp. 321–322. om.com/az/axia_sped/ Discussion Questions After watching both the Reading and Writingand the Social Skills video clips athttp:// /axia_sped/ what characteristics of ASD do Ayah and Ally display? Under which classifications of ASD might the girls be identified? How do the teachers respond to each child? Explain why. /axia_sped/ AED 222 Week 4 CheckPoint The Life of a Special Education (UOP) AED 222 Week 4 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP)

. Assignment: Supports for TBI, Physical Disabilities, and Health Impairments Read about the special supports on pp. 401–403 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers that have been designed to help students with medical and physical conditions in the classroom. Research several available supports. CheckPoint: Devices and Practices for Sensory Impairments Refer to Ch. 13 & 14 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers. Research two devices and associated teaching practices that may aid students with sensory impairments in the classroom. One of the devices must assist with hearing impairments and one with visual impairments. Some examples include the following: hearing aids, computer assisted real-time transcription (CART), video magnifiers or closed- circuit televisions (CCTV), Braille embossers, or alternate format materials. AED 222 Week 5 Assignment Supports for TBI Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments (UOP) AED 222 Week 5 CheckPoint Devices and Practices for Sensory Impairments (UOP)

Exercise: Final Project Matrix Record the following information regarding the exceptionalities discussed in Weeks Four and Five in the appropriate sections of the matrix in Appendix B using Ch. 13 & 14 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers as references: CheckPoint: Channeling Students into a Gifted Program Refer to Acceleration Program Options at /gifted/strategies.htm#Acceleration and pp. 419–425 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers. /gifted/strategies.htm#Acceleration AED 222 Week 5 Exercise Final Project Matrix (UOP) AED 222 Week 6 CheckPointChanneling Students into a Gifted Program (UOP)

Discussion Questions After comparing Renzulli’s three-ring conception of giftedness to the Marland definition on pp. 412– 413 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers, which model do you think has greater significance for educators and why? CheckPoint: Bloom’s Taxonomy Within a Planning Pyramid Identify, using the planning pyramid on p. 115 of Special Education for Today’s Teachers, which goals in the boxes on the left side of the form (in Figure 5.1 on p. 113) contain a verb from Bloom’s taxonomy. AED 222 Week 6 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP) AED 222 Week 8 CheckPoint Blooms Taxonomy Planning Pyramids and Systematic Strategies (UOP)

Exercise: Creating a Student Profile for a Mock Case Study Complete Appendix C to begin the first step of the Final Project, using the information you compiled in Appendix B. This exercise consists of creating a profile for a special-needs student. Specific information requirements are listed in Appendix C. Discussion Questions Post the highlighted portions of the Appendix C matrix. Only post the highlighted portions to avoid revealing the exceptionality you are addressing in your profile to your classmates. What exceptionalities are addressed in your classmates’ mock case study? What additional information could they have included to clarify the exceptionality or the student’s needs? What information was particularly useful for you in the identification process? Provide feedback to help them improve their student profiles and use their comments and feedback to improve your student profile. AED 222 Week 7 Exercise Creating a Student Profile for a Mock Case Study (UOP) AED 222 Week 8 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP)

Discussion Questions Post the highlighted portions of the Appendix C matrix. Only post the highlighted portions to avoid revealing the exceptionality you are addressing in your profile to your classmates. What exceptionalities are addressed in your classmates’ mock case study? What additional information could they have included to clarify the exceptionality or the student’s needs? What information was particularly useful for you in the identification process? Provide feedback to help them improve their student profiles and use their comments and feedback to improve your student profile. Use the information you gathered throughout the course to distinguish what you think is the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of the current special educational system in America. Write a 200- to 300-word reflection that explains your opinion. AED 222 Week 8 DQ 1 and DQ 2 (UOP) AED 222 Week 9 Capstone CheckPoint (UOP)

Final Project: Student Profile Resources: Appendixes A, B, and C Create a profile of a student for a mock-IEP meeting that will convene to help identify exceptionality in that student. In this scenario, you are an aide in the child’s homeroom class and will present the following information at the meeting: AED 222 Week 9 Final Project Student Profile (UOP)

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