Educational Opportunity: New Multicultural Special Education Program at Portland State University

New Multicultural Special Education Program at Portland State University
Program: Certificate of Completion in Special Education

The brand new program of study entitled Multicultural Special Education is designed to prepare educators to address the instructional, language, and literacy needs of English learners with and without exceptional needs. It is offered under the auspices of two graduate level departments (Special Education and the Continuing Education departments) in the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University (Portland Oregon). The program will begin fall 2013 and is fully online. This fully online program might be perfect for people wishing to increase their skills working with an increasingly diverse special education population.

Designed for:
 K-12 monolingual and bilingual educators administrators
 Related service providers
 Members of RTI teams, pre-referral multidisciplinary teams

Program Benefits:
 Learn to distinguish language disorders from language differences
 Understand legal mandates and their implications
 Gain competencies to serve EL students across the continuum of ability and environments
 Consider the cultural loading and linguistic demands inherent in assessments
 Benefit from the accumulated knowledge of a national advisory board
 Solve issues of daily practice with participant generated case studies

Program format:
 15 graduate credits
 Fully online delivery
 Cohort model

Courses:
 Foundations of Multicultural Special Education: Policies and Practices
 Typical and Atypical Development of First and Second Languages
 Literacy Instruction and Interventions for Struggling Emergent Bilinguals
 Academic Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals
 Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Working with Diverse Students and Families

Designed to prepare educators to address the instructional, language, and literacy needs of English learners with and without exceptional needs.

Beginning fall 2013

The web pages associated with the program are listed below:
Multicultural Special Education Overview http://www.pdx.edu/ceed/multicultural-special-education-certificate-of-completion
Multicultural Special Education Program Courses http://www.pdx.edu/ceed/multicultural-special-education-program-courses
Principal Faculty http://www.pdx.edu/ceed/multicultural-special-education-faculty
Contact Information http://www.pdx.edu/ceed/multicultural-special-education-contact

Educational Opportunity: New Multicultural Special Education Program at Portland State University. NCELA List (NCELA@HERMES.GWU.EDU, 21 Aug 2013).