Dual Preliminary Single Subject/Education Specialist Credential in Mild/Moderate and Extensive Support Needs

Introduction

Would you like to become an expert educator in a subject area and special education? In the Dual Preliminary Single Subject/Education Specialist Credential in Mild/Moderate and Extensive Support Needs program, you earn three credentials simultaneously:

• Preliminary Single Subject Credential
• Preliminary Education Specialist Credential in Mild/Moderate Support Needs
• Preliminary Education Specialist Credential in Extensive Support Needs

Candidates earning these credentials become authorized to teach any subject area offered in our Single Subject program, while also being authorized to conduct assessments and provide instruction and special education services to learners across federal disability categories and with extensive to mild support needs from kindergarten through age 22.

Features

• Two-year program, streamlined to have fewer units than required to earn these credentials separately
• Developmentally sequenced program of methods, foundational, and field experience courses
• Highly qualified faculty with strong practical knowledge of students and schools
• Emphasis on working with diverse students in urban schools
• Field experiences in both general and special-education settings
• Culminates with the state-required Teacher Performance Assessment, the edTPA.

Program Courses (60 units)

• EPC 420 Educational Psychology of Adolescence (3)
• SED 521 Content Area Literacy and Learning in Multiethnic Secondary Schools (3)
• SPED 402 Promoting and Supporting a Positive and Inclusive School Climate (3)
• SPED 407 Communication, Language, and Early Literacy Development for K-12 Students with Disabilities (3)
• AAS/AFRS/ARMN/CHS/ELPS 417 Equity and Diversity in Schools (3)
• SED 514 Computers in Instruction (3)
• SPED 416 Educating Diverse Learns with Disabilities and Working with Their Families (3)
• SPED 420 Designing Equitable Learning Through Universal Design (3)
• SPED 502MME Literacy Intervention for Diverse K-12 Students with Mild to Extensive Support Needs (3)
• SPED 511 Assessing Diverse Learners with Mild to Extensive Support Needs (3)
• SED 525XX Methods of Teaching Single Subject (3) – 525A, 525D, 525EN, 525MA/MAL, 525MU, 525PE, 525S/SL, 525SS, 525WL
• SED 554/554S Supervised Field Experience and Seminar (3+2)
• SPED 403MME Early Field Experience/Seminar in Special Education (3)
• SPED 503MME Curriculum and Instruction for Diverse Learners with Mild to Extensive Support Needs (3)
• SED 555/555S Supervised Practicum and Seminar (4+2) 
• SPED 545 Support Strategies for Learners with Physical and Multiple Disabilities (3)
• SPED 580MME Student Teaching and Seminar in Mild/Moderate and Extensive Support Needs (6)
• HSCI 466ADO Health Issues of the Adolescent (1)

Suggested Course Sequence

Advisement

For more information about the program and how to apply, please contact Dr. Sue Sears at sue.sears@csun.edu.