SPED 841

Advanced Methods & Assessment Learning Strategy & Content Mastery for Struggling Learners & Students with High-Incidence Disabilities

This course focuses on implementing evidence-based strategic instruction in both general and special education settings, while also exploring assessment methods, progress monitoring, and strategies for addressing high-stakes testing.

A Practical Strategies Guide

Interview a teacher, service provider, or administrator who works with individuals with disabilities and holds a role you aspire to or see as inspirational.

Reflection

This reflection explores my personal and professional growth following an interview with a former teacher, highlighting the challenges I observed in implementing inclusive practices like UDL and MTSS. It also outlines my renewed commitment to building a more consistent, supportive framework at my preschool—one that empowers staff through professional development and ensures every child’s unique needs are recognized and met.

Professional Development Resources

To complement the neuroscience-informed strategies explored in my reflection, I plan to use Neuroscience in the Classroom as a resource for planning my staff’s professional development. This series offers valuable insights into how brain research connects to effective educational practices, reinforcing the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and developmentally informed instruction. My intention is to use it as a foundation for helping my team deepen their understanding of how children learn and apply that knowledge in meaningful, practical ways in the classroom.

Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections is a K–12 video course for teachers and school counselors featuring 42 modules, an online text, and a course guide. It explores how insights from neuroscience can inform and improve classroom teaching by helping educators understand how the brain learns. Through real-world examples and expert dialogue, the course offers tools to address everyday challenges and support sustained professional development.