SPED 2390 - Special Education Supervised Field Experience

1. At the end of this course it is expected that students will have met or be making significant progress toward meeting all competencies listed in the NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competencies and the NM Teacher Competencies.
2. This course specifically addresses the competency areas listed below, organized according to the Core Values of the CNM Education Program.
3. Reflect on, analyze, and evaluate the effect of his or her choices and actions on others, including students, parents, and other professionals in the learning community, and will be able to use this knowledge to improve the learning process. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: A-1. 
4. Actively seek out opportunities to grow professionally, including participation in professional organizations and professional development such as conferences, workshops, classes and research, colleagues, and other resources to support self-development as a learner and as a teacher. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: A-2
5. Evaluate lesson plans through observation of classroom interactions, questioning, and analyzing student work and uses assessment of student learning to improve his or her own teaching and to revise curriculum. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: B-9.
6.  Core Values: Diversity & Multicultural Perspectives.
7. Provide a safe classroom environment where individual differences are respected NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: C-4.
8. Understand how students differ in their approaches to learning and create instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competencies: B-1, B-2, B-5, F-1.
9. Develop sequential lessons that include knowledge of the discipline, student diversity, the local community, and the district/state curriculum goals NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competencies: B-1, B-10.
10. Use a variety of assessment tools to provide diverse opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: D-11 and INTASC Standards and Indicators: 8.
11. Maintain high expectations for the success of all students while establishing a classroom environment where students believe they can be successful. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: K-5.
12. Understand how children learn and develop, and provide learning opportunities that support their cognitive, social, aesthetic, emotional, and physical development and use formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, physical, and aesthetic development of the learner. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: I-2
13. Understand special education regulations, different levels of disabilities, and the development and use of individualized education plans and implement necessary modifications and adaptations in instruction and curriculum so that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum in the least restrictive environment. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competencies: H-1, H-2, H-3 and NM Teacher competency 2-E.
14. Understand how students differ in their approaches to learning based on diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and create instructional opportunities that are adapted to these diverse learners. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: F-1 and NM Teacher competency 7-D.
15. Demonstrate sensitivity to New Mexicos unique linguistic and cultural diversity and use knowledge of different cultural contexts within the community,socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, to connect with the learner through types of interaction and assignments. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: F-7 and INTASC Standards and Indicators: 3.
16. Core Values: Collaboration.
17. Understand the principles of effective classroom management and use a range of strategies to promote positive relationships and cooperation in the classroom. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: C-2 and INTASC Standards and Indicators: 5.
18. Collaborate with specialists, support personnel, colleagues, parents and administrators for the success of the individual student. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: C-8.
19. Recognize that family and community can be used as teaching resources to enhance learning and childrens self-value. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: G-5.
20. Communicate to parents and community members, student progress, important events and school activities. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: G-6.
21. Use technology to enhance communication and collaboration. NMPED Entry Level Teacher Competency: E-2, adapted.