Identifying and Removing Obstacles for Black Students with Special Needs

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3 Credits | 45 Clock Hours

$199.00
$199.00
$199.00
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Identifying and Removing Obstacles for Black Students with Special Needs course for Teachers

Course Description

Are you ready to make a difference in the lives of underserved Black Students with Special Needs? Change agency begins with awareness, knowledge, and skill. In this self-paced course, teachers and school staff will recognize personal and professional biases, relationships between structures of racism and special education, relate empathy for ignorance to strategies for equity, and relegate evidence-based and privileged best practices to the most marginalized students with special needs: Black students.

Objectives

Teachers will be able to:

  • Analyze data and recognize disparities and challenges among boys and girls across all special education boys and girls, specifically, Black, White, Latinx and Native American Indian.
  • Apply the idea of best teaching and advocate practices to their classrooms to better support struggling students to reach their potential.
  • Begin to assess/unpack/reflect on their own individual identities and cultures, including influences on teaching and learning.
  • Choose equitable and easy to implement classroom management practices as a strategy for inclusion.
  • Design an instructional practice, process, or program proposal that directly impacts the outcomes for Black students with special needs.
  • Design and implement a learning environment that affirms students’ racial and cultural identities and contributes to their engagement and learning through the cultivation of critical inquiry.
  • Develop strategies for implementing best teaching practices to support struggling students and students with disabilities.
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of School Resource Officers (SRO)
  • Explore evidence-based interventions as instruments for academic success.
  • Explore their own conscious and unconscious bias in working with racially diverse students.
  • Explore the process in which schools use to identify students with disabilities.
  • Envision equitable special education systems and practices as a way forward toward improved outcomes.
  • Identify what struggling students may look like in your classroom.
  • Identify and question underlying personal and institutional beliefs, norms, practices, and assumptions that contribute to inequity.
  • Identify the Practices to support identifying students with a disability. Identify historical oppression and the multigenerational impact on Black students and families.
  • Investigate institutional norms and practices that form or contribute to inequities in special education.
  • Learn about specific biases in special education and reflect on their own biases.
  • Learn methods for identifying and responding to inequities that relate to the special education system.
  • Recognize effective early intervention practices.
  • Recognize collaboration with a special education advocate as part of the individualized education plan (IEP) process.

To Enroll:

  • If you want Clock Hours only, select the Course Only option. You will receive a Certificate of Completion when you finish the course, which you will use to obtain your Clock Hours.
  • If you need an official transcript, choose the Course & University Credits option. See our University Partners page for more information about our regionally accredited university partners.
  • Add the course to your cart.
  • When you are ready to check out, go to your cart, and click “Check Out”.
  • You will be asked to log into your account or create a new account.
  • Follow the enrollment and payment prompts. If you have a gift card or discount code, you will enter it at the end of the enrollment process.
  • Upon purchase, you will receive an email receipt and be able to log in to your course at eClassroom Sign in. You have 180 days (about 6 months) from your purchase to complete your course.

If you have any questions, check out our FAQs or email support@cecreditsonline.org.

Upon Course Completion:

Graduate-Level Professional Development Credits

  • We have partnered with regionally-accredited universities to provide graduate-level professional development credits for our courses. All courses taken for graduate credit receive both a Certificate of Completion and a University Transcript for your records.
  • Upon completion of your course, email support@cecreditsonline.org to let us know you want university credits and which university you have selected for those credits from our list of regionally-accredited university partners. See University Partners tab.
  • CE Credits Online will email you instructions on how to pay for the credits.
  • CE Credits Online will forward all the required documentation to the University you selected.
  • The University partner will process your course completion and provide a transcript that includes the name of the course, course number, number of credits, and your grade.
  • You will receive directions on how to receive your transcript in email form, and you can also review the University Partners section of our website for more information.
  • You must check with your district to ensure the credits received will meet your specific requirements. We will not be held responsible if your school, district or state does not accept the credits issued.

Obtaining Clock Hours

  • Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for your records that will include the name of the course and number of professional development hours completed.
  • The Certificate of Completion is designed as a record that verifies that a professional development course was taken and passed. This Certificate of Completion is required to obtain your Clock Hours. 
  • Upon receipt of your Certificate of Completion, send a copy of it to Kayla at North Central ESD, kaylal@ncesd.org.
  • Kayla will mark your course as complete.
  • You will then be able to complete a quick evaluation and purchase your Clock Hours.
  • Questions? Contact Kayla Langston at 509-667-7115 or email her at kaylal@ncesd.org.