EDTE 8720 - Critical Issues and Current Trends in Special Education

Examination of the most salient issues and questions facing the field of special education. Divergent perspectives regarding these challenges that currently confront the profession will be analyzed and evaluated, investigated, and collectively discussed along with trends that are profoundly altering both the manner in which special education teachers and administrators are professionally prepared, as well as the means by which children with diverse learning needs are delivered instruction in public school settings, with particular attention being given to the special challenges facing special educators and administrators in the delivery of quality services within limited resource environments

Requisites
Permission required
Credit Hours: 3.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar

Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I