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Nov 21, 2024
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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Special Education Certificate
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This 12-credit hour graduate certificate is designed to provide the knowledge and understanding needed for regular K-12 classroom teachers, who are interested in acquiring more skills and knowledge to better serve special needs students in their classroom, and/or would like to add Cross-Categorical Special Education Mild/Moderate Disabilities certification to their teaching license by taking the Special Education content exam. The certificate does not give students a MoDESE certification.
Admission Requirements for the Advanced Certification Programs
The applicant seeking admission to the program must:
- Have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
- Complete all parts of the online application;
- Submit official transcript(s) of all college-level work completed;
- International students: an official transcript and/or an official transcript evaluation is required for admittance into a graduate program;
- Submit verification of teaching certificate;
- Have a grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale;
- ELL: Satisfactory completion of one year of foreign language study or an equivalent experience learning a language within another culture is recommended; and
- Students whose primary language is not English are required to submit official score reports of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam. The examination results should not be more than two years old. The minimum TOEFL score required is 550. The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam scores may be submitted in lieu of the TOEFL. The minimum IELTS exam score required for admission is an overall score of 6.5 with no individual band score below 5.5.
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Required Courses (12 credit hours)
Advanced Certificate Policies
To maintain enrollment, the student must:
- Maintain a 3.0 grade point average in all graduate coursework, with no grade below a “C.”
- Only one grade of “C” is accepted in the 10-credit hour program.
- Only one course may be repeated one time in the entire program.
Students who are unable to maintain these academic standards will be dismissed from the program.
Outcomes
Teachers completing this certificate will:
- Develop strategies for identifying a student’s needs, and develop appropriate differentiated learning opportunities.
- Develop tiered systems for supporting instruction and behavior.
- Develop Individualized Education Plans and understand and explain the Special Education process to the school community, parents and families, and the community at large.
- Understand language development of the exceptional child.
- Understand how to engage families as educational partners.
Assessment
Outcomes for the Advanced Certification program are assessed through signature assessments, key assessments and/or action research projects or field performance evaluations as indicated on course syllabi.
Alignment matrices showing the assessment of outcomes in each graduate concentration are located in the School of Education Office.
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