CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY
ED 405 K – 12 Math Methods for Special Education
Spring 2007
Instructor: Cynthia Mew
Phone: 524-5761(h)/733-4832(DOE)
Email: [email protected] (personal e-mail)
[email protected] (Lotus Notes)
Please use the WebCT e-mail unless it is a personal request.
Office Hours: e-mail requests will be answered every evening
Required Text:
Tucker, B. F., Singleton, A. H., & Weaver, T. L. (2005). Teaching Mathematics to All Children: Designing and Adapting Instruction to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners (2nd edition). Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131175742
Catalog Course Description: This course provides an overview and application of best practice mathematics instructional approaches, strategies, techniques, and assessment methods for students with mild/moderate disabilities in K-12 settings.
Learner Outcomes:
Assessment:
Weekly Discussion and Assignments 80
Mathematics Unit Plan 20
A: 90 – 100 B: 80 – 89 C: 70 – 79
Participation
This course is organized into 10 sessions. Participants should plan to spend approximately 4½ hours per week online (or more, as skills, Internet and time permit) exploring and examining Internet sites and related materials, responding to weekly discussion questions, and completing online assignments. In addition, participants should plan to spend additional time offline, reading the course text, researching the final project, and reflecting about the course concepts.
WebCT
Instructions for maneuvering in WEBCT can be found in the WEBCT help section or the WEBCT online tutorial; contact Jon Nakasone for technical difficulties. It is my expectation that you are already familiar with using WEBCT or that you have taken the online help BEFORE the beginning of class. Please let me know if you are having difficulties. If you see your comments posted on the discussion board, then feel assured that I will see it too.
Assignments and Rubrics
Please submit assignments as directed. If assignments are submitted incorrectly (e.g., discussions posted in the wrong week) you may not receive credit. Please remember that postings to the discussion board are open to all course participants; discussion should be professional and respectful of others. Individual assignments should be as email attachments to the instructor privately by the assigned due date, unless directed to post and respond in the specified assignment. They will be graded and returned via email. If you do not receive a grade from me within a week, please contact me to verify that I have indeed received your materials.
Late Work
Late work is generally not accepted. If your weekly assignments must be late, please email me via email privately using either of the e-mail addresses listed above regarding your need to be late. Valid reasons might include serious illness or emergency. Being busy or having computer problems is not considered a valid excuse. You must contact me PRIOR to the due date to make the necessary arrangements for the lateness of the project or it will be recorded as a zero.
Academic honesty is an essential aspect of all learning, scholarship, and research. It is one of the values regarded most highly by academic communities throughout the world. Violations of the principle of academic honesty are extremely serious and cannot be tolerated.
Students are responsible for promoting academic honesty at Chaminade by not participating in any act of dishonesty and by reporting any incidence of academic dishonesty to an instructor or to a university official. Academic dishonesty may include theft of records or examinations, alteration of grades, and plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the offering of work of another as one's own. Plagiarism is a serious offense and may include, but is not limited to, the following:
1. Complete or partial copying directly from a published or unpublished source without proper acknowledgment to the author. Minor changes in wording or syntax are not sufficient to avoid charges of plagiarism. Proper acknowledgment of the source of a text is always mandatory.
2. Paraphrasing the work of another without proper author acknowledgment.
3. Submitting as one's own original work (however freely given or purchased) the original exam, research paper, manuscript, report, computer file, or other assignment that has been prepared by another individual.
Students are expected to attend regularly all courses for which they are registered. They should notify their instructors when illness prevents them from attending class and make arrangements to complete missed assignments. When illness or personal reasons necessitate continued absence, the student should officially withdraw from all affected courses. Anyone who stops attending a course without official withdrawal may receive a failing grade.
Mathematics Unit
Select a topic that is developmentally appropriate for the students you teach, and plan a unit to develop the necessary knowledge and skills, using strategies appropriate to the students’ needs. The unit must consist of the following components:
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Required Components |
Points |
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Overview of the unit, including Goals. General description of unit activities. Connections to other subjects and to the real world Connection to the state standards |
2 |
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Learning outcomes that are Measureable and related to IEP objectives
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2 |
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Assessment instruments that Are connected to learning outcomes. Include well-defined rubrics. Use multiple methods to identify students’ knowledge and skills. Include accommodations for diverse learners. |
3 |
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Lesson Plans (minimum of 3) that meet the following standards: Connected to learning outcomes. Employ instructional strategies that engage students in active, hands-on, problem-based learning experiences. Include exploratory or developmental, practice, and application activities (not necessarily all in the same lesson). Are sequenced to develop the students’ understanding. |
9 |
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Adaptations for diverse learning needs. |
2 |
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List of available resources, which may include manipulatives, games, websites, children’s literature, and journal articles. |
2 |
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List of references to textbooks and/or other resources used in planning the unit, in APA style. |
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Total |
20 |