Exceptional Student Education

Curriculum Requirements

General Education Requirements

(Note: General education requirements for an education major offered in the state of Florida are established and revised by the Florida State Legislature. The following general education requirements are currently in effect. Please consult the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program for the latest information about General Education specific program requirements.)

General Education Subtotal 30 credits

Program Requirements

Program Requirements Subtotal 16 credits

Program Benchmarks and Major Requirements

Students in the state-approved program in Exceptional Student Education must also register for program benchmarks simultaneously with courses in the program. There are four benchmarks, coinciding with four blocks of courses in the state-approved program. At these four benchmarks, students provide documentation showing completion of program requirements. For specific requirements of each benchmark, see the course descriptions for EDUC 3001, 3501, 4001, and 4501. See the Benchmark Handbook for additional information.

• EDUC 3000: Clinical Experiences
• EDUC 3001: Benchmark I
• EDUC 3330: Integrating Instructional Technology in the Classroom
• ESOL 3340: Survey of TESOL for Teachers
• EDUC 3350: Survey of Exceptional Student Education
• EDUC 3360: Educational Psychology
  
  
• EDUC 3500: Clinical Experiences
• EDUC 3501: Benchmark II
• EDUC 3520: Principles and Practices of Instruction and Assessment I
• ESED 3530: Educational Assessment of Exceptional Students
• ESED 3540: Introduction to Language Development and Speech Disabilities
• ESED 3550: Vocational and Functional Life Skills
• ESED 3560: Education of the Mildly Handicapped
• ESED 3561: Families, Professional and Exceptionalities
  
  
• EDUC 4000: Clinical Experiences
• EDUC 4001: Benchmark III
• EDUC/ESED 4320: Classroom Management for Typical and Atypical Learners in the Multicultural Classroom
• ELEM 4340: Methods of Teaching Language Arts Through Children's Literature in the Elementary School
• ELEM 4350: Methods of Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School
• ELEM 4360: Methods of Teaching Literacy in the Elementary School
• ESED 4360: Educational Programming for the Emotionally Handicapped
  
  
• EDUC 4500: Clinical Experiences
• EDUC 4501: Benchmark IV
• ESED 4530: Classroom Procedures for the Mentally Handicapped
• ELEM 4540: Reading Assessment I
• ESED 4550: Methods and Materials for Teaching SLD
• ELEM 4560: Methods of Teaching Reading Across the Elementary Curriculum
• ESOL 4565: 2 nd Language Learning: Theory, Methods, and Evaluation
• EDUC 4570: Internship/Seminar

MAJOR SUBTOTAL 72 credits