SEDM 6300 - Assessment and Methods for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): SEDM 5000, SEDM 6250

Description: Teacher candidates in this course learn how to select, adapt, design, and implement interventions and support strategies with students with social-emotional-behavioral differences in a variety of settings. Teacher candidates develop and implement a social-emotional-learning (SEL) lesson and create a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP). Teacher candidates discuss theories of disability and apply special education processes of evaluation, assessment, progress monitoring, and functional assessment. Mental health disorders and trauma informed practices are discussed as they relate to student engagement, learning, and special education services. Teacher candidates engage in a 45-hour field experience at an assigned school during which they apply knowledge and skills learned through this course and program. This course is designed for teacher candidates to learn how to select, adapt, and use instructional interventions and strategies with students with emotional and behavioral disorders in a variety of settings. Theoretical approaches, identification, educational placement, and evaluation issues will be addressed. In addition, specific categories of disordered behavior, such as bipolar, depression, anxiety, oppositional defiant disorders, schizophrenia, and childhood psychosis, will be discussed. Students are required to apply knowledge and skills in a 30-hour field-based experience.