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Elizabeth Barker Keefe, Ph.D.
COURSE SYLLABUS: SPRING 2003
Program: Dual License Program
Course Number: SPCED 495 section 001,
Spring, 2003
Title: Field Experiences
Credit Hours: This course is 3 credit
hours.
Course Prerequisites/Restrictions: Participation
in Dual License Residency Year
Instructor:
Dr. Liz Keefe
Hokona Hall 269
Ph. 277-1587
email: lkeefe@unm.edu
Office Hours: Monday 3:00-5:00 call Terri
at 277-5018 for appt., other days call Liz at 277-1587 to make appt.
Class Meets: Thursdays 7-9:30pm in EDUC
208 and arranged in schools.
Course Description: This course is specifically designed for undergraduate students in the Dual License Pre-Residency Literacy Block. Students will complete 2-3 field experiences covering home, community, and school settings. Students be able to use their school expereinces to complete course assignemnts in LLSS 331 and 333. Through this class, students should have their school placement for Fall, 2003 decided.
Rationale: The mission of the College of Education is to advance the quality of the educational experience for all learners and to educate professionals who can facilitate human growth in schools, homes, communities, and workplaces. In carrying out this mission, the College explicitly values diversity in people and perspectives. The rationale for the Mental Retardation and Severe Disabilities Program and the Dual License Program is supported by a shift in the major paradigm in special education and bilingual special education from a solely trait-based conceptualization toward thinking about disabilities as an interaction between individuals with disabilities or those from cultural and linguistic diverse backgrounds, their environments, and needed supports. This new way of thinking forces reanalysis of structures designed to assist individual in creating for themselves satisfying lives and challenges traditional notions of disabilities and handicaps.
Required Reading
Raising Blaze
Course Objectives:
This course will address the following competencies:
· The student will discuss the importance
of home and family to the education of students with and without disabilities
· The student will demonstrate the ability
to listen to parents of students with disabilities through written reflections.
· The student will be aware of the importance
of the community to the education of students with and without disabilities.
· The student will demonstrate their
ability to connect their understanding of community to school experiences
through observation and reflection.
· The student will observe and be aware
of various approaches to literacy in classrooms.
· The student will identify critical
classroom features which are associated with positive learning environments
for students with and without disabilities through observation, participation,
and reflection.
· Students will demonstrate a commitment
to developing the highest educational and quality of life potential of
individuals with and without disabilities.
Specific Course Requirements:
1) Students are required to attend and participate in class.
2) Students will complete 80 hours of field experiences as follows:
Families as Faculty 20 hoursStudents can choose to replace community hours with school placement hours therefore needing 60 hours of school placment.
Community placement* 20 hours
School placement 40 hours
4) Students will complete the following assignments:
a) Families as Faculty 3-5 page reflection paper 40
b) Time log (community and school) 60 hrs total 50
c) Raising Blaze reflection paper 10
Evaluation Procedures:
Attendance and Participation
Students are expected to attend all classes punctually and to participate fully in all activities. Please contact me by phone or email for short-term illnesses, bereavement, or authorized university activity prior to any absences. Because this course is required for your preparation as a teacher, your presence is essential. Your grade will drop one full letter grade if you are absent more than two times. You may need to retake this course if you are absent three or more times.
Course Evaluation: Criteria for successful
completion of assignments will be discussed prior to beginning work in
them. Students will have the opportunity to resubmit any assignment that
does not meet established criteria for quality and accuracy as long as
the assignment was turned in on time.
Please note: If you are a qualified student
with a disability who requires an accommodation, please let me know in
a timely manner so that any necessary modification can be made.
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Last updated: February 24, 2003