Identifying and Removing Obstacles for Black Students with Special Needs

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3 CPE Credits | 45 Hours

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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.

Enrollment is a two-step process:

To Register/Enroll in a Course:

Register:

  • Register with Region 10 ESC by going to Region 10 Education Service Center.
  • Once you have registered, Region 10 will email you a prepaid enrollment code to use to enroll at CE Credits Online.

Enroll:

  • Return to our Region 10 course options and select your course.
  • If you need a certificate of completion only (for Texas CPEs), choose the Course Only option. Or…
  • 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.
  • Enter the enrollment code provided by Region 10 to validate your enrollment.
  • Click “Check Out” when you are ready to complete your order.
  • You will be asked to log into your account or create a new account.
  • Follow the prompts until you receive a confirmation page. You’ll need to click the Continue to payment button.
  • Upon enrollment, 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 enrollment to complete your course.

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

For questions regarding the registration or payment process through Region 10, please contact:

Lori Aden
(972) 348-1510
lori.aden@region10.org

CPE Credit: All courses are approved for CPE credit.

Upon Course Completion:

Obtaining Graduate-Level Professional Development Credits

  • We have partnered with regionally-accredited universities to provide graduate-level professional development credits for our courses.
  • Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for your records.
  • Select the university (see University Partners tab) from whom you want your credits--the university or universities that are providing credits for a specific course are listed in the drop down in each course description.
  • Email support@cecreditsonline.org to let us know you are completed and which university you have selected for your credits.
  • CE Credits Online will email you instructions on how to pay for the credits ($55/credit).
  • Upon completion of your course, 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 CPE Credits

  • Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for your records that will include the name of the course, the number of professional development hours completed and our CPE Provider number.
  • The Certificate of Completion is designed as a record that verifies that a professional development course was taken and passed.