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Special Education Program

The teacher education mission is to prepare students for lifelong learning, developing future educators’ intellect, imagination, self-confidence, and motivation, while preparing them for the teaching profession.  Students investigate, reflect, analyze, and judge reality and truth through inquiry and discussion.  Committed to educating each student as a total human being, the teacher education unit helps students to receive, respond to, organize, and characterize values.  Specifically, students develop values about teaching, society, health behaviors, moral issues, education, and political influences.  As educators we must ask our students to think boldly about the opportunities and responsibilities presented to us by a rapidly changing world.  Students within the department are encouraged to live Carroll College’s mission by participating in community service and by interacting with children and adults from diverse cultural, religious, economic, and intellectual backgrounds.

The teacher special education unit advances the Carroll College mission as it works within its conceptual framework.  That framework is built upon a liberal arts education, structured by traditional educational philosophies, and embraced by an atmosphere of dignity, which values justice for all persons.

Special Education Minor Requirements

Minor/Professional Education Program Requirements
SPED 300
Introduction to Exceptional Children
SPED 301
Characteristics of Learning Disabilities
SPED 302
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
SPED 303 Characteristics of Emotional Disturbance/Behavior Disorders
SPED 323 Assessment and Evaluation in Special Education
SPED 408 Methods for Teaching Students with Mild Disabilities
SPED 413 Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders

Other Program Requirements
ED 205 Classroom Management
ED 324 Corrective and Remedial Reading
ED 412 Measurement and Assessment in Teaching
PSY 227 Child Psychology
and PSY 228 Adolescent Psychology
or PSY 105 General Psychology
and PSY 203 Developmental Psychology

Teacher Licensure
To obtain teacher licensure in special education, a student must
complete:
ED 408 Student Teaching in the Minor Area
or ED 410 Student Teaching

Note: To teach special education (K-12) in Montana with only a minor
concentration in the field, a student must either major in elementary
education or pursue a secondary education major which leads to
teacher licensure.