School of Continuing & Professional Studies
Licensure/Endorsement/M.Ed. in Special Education
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED
Contact:
Barbara Waldron
Phone: (276) 403-5635
E-mail: bwaldron@newcollegeinstitute.org
or
Ariel Harrington
Phone: (276) 403-5623
E-mail: aharrington@newcollegeinstitute.org
Complete your program in just 2.5 years through online and blended courses that combine online with face-to-face and Distance Video Conference meetings.
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www.scps.virginia.edu/landingpages/scpssw/specialed
The Licensure/Endorsement/M.Ed. programs in special education are offered in partnership with the U.Va. Curry School of Education, and are designed to meet the rapidly expanding need for well-trained special education teachers. The licensure program is designed to prepare those without teaching experience, career changers, persons with provisional licenses, and general education teachers to teach students with mild disabilities.
The Master of Education with an emphasis in Special Education is designed for teachers who are professionally licensed and want further training in the field of special education. Three additional courses and comprehensive exams complete the requirements for the M.Ed. in special education.
Prerequisites include:
- Earned a bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university (concentration does not matter)
- Hold a five-year renewable license OR
- Submit passing PRAXIS I scores OR
- Submit copies of SAT scores
- Before April 1995, combined 1000, with at least 450 verbal and 510 math
- After April 1995, combined 1100, with at least 530 each verbal and math
- GREs must be completed and submitted with your application by July 1, 2010
Effective 2010-11:
www.scps.virginia.edu/tuition.pdf
Proposed Sequence of Courses:
Fall 2010
The Exceptional Learner (3 credits) online
Behavior Management (3 credits)
Spring 2011
Reading Development for Special Populations (3 credits)
Characteristics of Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (1 credit) online
Characteristics of Learning Disabilities (1 credit) online
Characteristics of Intellectual Disabilities (1 credit) online
IEP and Transition Planning (1 credit)
Summer 2011
Teaching and Technology (1 credit)
Psychoeducational Assessment (3 credits)
Methods of Instruction & collaboration (3 credits)
Fall 2010
Contemporary Issues in Education (3 credits)
Math Instruction (3 credits)
Spring 2012
Reading Diagnosis & Remediation (3 credits)
Teaming in Special Education: Parent, Student & Teacher (2 credits)
Summer 2012
Advanced Techniques for Teaching Exceptional Learners (3 credits)
Transition Planning for Secondary Students (3 credits)
Fall 2012
Student Teaching Associateship: Special Education (3 credits)
January 2013
Apply for special education license or add-on endorsement*
Spring 2013
Seminar: Special Education
Late spring/summer
Comprehensive exams (individually scheduled)
*If you are not already licensed, you must either have taken a child development course in your postsecondary career, or take one through a community college before submitting your licensure paperwork to the state in January 2013.
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For more information, or to apply for this program, contact a NCI Recruiter at:
New College Institute
30 Franklin Street
Martinsville, VA 24112
Phone: (276) 403-5635 or 403-5623