Special Education Part 1

This course helps you deepen your understanding of special education through equity, inclusion and anti-oppressive frameworks. You'll develop guiding principles for teaching learners with special education needs, ensuring respectful support that values individual strengths, identities and experiences. Focusing on rights-based frameworks and policies, you'll examine creating inclusive learning environments that address systemic barriers faced by learners with disabilities and marginalized groups. You’ll analyze individual education plans, the identification, placement and review committee process and support models for learners with special education needs. You'll develop practical strategies to identify and support learners using differentiated instruction and a tiered approach, centering learner and family voices. The course also covers essential transition planning strategies.