EDUC 2301 Introduction to Special Populations (3) This is a Texas Common Course Number.
An enriched integrated pre-service course and content experience that provides an overview of schooling and classrooms from the perspectives of language, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic, and academic diversity and equity with an emphasis on factors that facilitate learning. Lab provides the student with opportunities to participate in 16 hours of early field observations of P-12 special populations
Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number 1310015109
Welcome to Introduction to Special Populations (EDUC 2301)! This course focuses on diversity and equity with an emphasis on factors that facilitate learning.
By the end of the semester the student will be able to satisfactorily complete all the listed learning objectives.
Course Objectives
If you successfully complete this course you will be able to understand/demonstrate each of the following:
1. Discuss the major the major learning theories in education.
2. Relate issues of language to factors that facilitate learning.
3. Relate issues of gender to factors that facilitate learning.
4. Relate issues of socioeconomic status to factors that facilitate learning.
5. Relate issues of ethnicity to factors that facilitate learning.
6. Relate issues of academic diversity to factors that facilitate learning.
7. Relate issues of equity to factors that facilitate learning.
8. Read and comprehend assigned reading material, demonstrating the ability to analyze and interpret a
variety of materials.
9. Write in an intelligent and informative manner, demonstrating the ability to produce clear, correct, and
coherent prose adapted to purpose, occasion, and audience.
10. Think critically in analyzing information, demonstrating the ability to evaluate arguments and to
construct alternative strategies.
11. Display increasing computer literacy, demonstrating the ability to use computer-based technology in
communicating, solving problems, and acquiring information.
Page 2 Academic Honesty
Page 3 Assignment Sheet for EDUC2301
Page 4 Code of Ethics for Educators
Page 5 Grade Determination
Page 6 Ground Rules
Page 7 How To Do Written Assignments
Page 8 Intern Handbook
Page 9 Links Important for Course
Page 10 Orientation
Page 11 Plagarism
Page 12 Things to Remember
Course Textbook
Computer with Internet Access
Email address
Microsoft Word
Power Point
Teaching Special Students in General Education Classrooms & Inclusive Classrooms Video Cases on CD-ROM, 7 ed.
Lewis & Doorlag
Pearson/Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-148635-7
To make the whole strong and unified, each part must be strong and supportive of the other parts. We are supportive of each other when we work to strengthen our own group--and when we speak up for groups other than our own when we see injustice and inequity. We learn to cooperate by recognizing and strengthening the interdependence that unites us.
The following quotation, attributed to Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), helps us see that we are all in this life together.
In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time
no one was left to speak up.