Facilitated Course Catalog

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge and skills in identifying the purposes, legal and ethical principles, appropriate formal and informal instruments, and alternate strategies for the assessment and evaluation of students with disabilities. Course emphasis includes interpretation and application of assessment results.

This course has been designed to assist educators in identifying the components of effective transition planning and the essential elements that must be in place for an individual with disabilities to successfully transition from school to work or continued education and adult living. Participants will learn how to identify resources to assist students with post-secondary success that is centered around their strengths, preferences, and interests. Participants will gain an understanding of the timeline and legislative changes that have resulted in a positive impact on individuals with disabilities related to transition services. The content and activities in this course will prepare participants to implement best practices to prepare students for transition to post-secondary education, work, and adult living.

This course was designed to provide a deeper understanding of the process of reading comprehension, evidence-based instructional practices for teaching reading comprehension, and to introduce a variety of technology supports and tools that educators and students can use to enhance the understanding of text. This knowledge building will enable you to recognize the complexity of reading comprehension, where students may need support in acquiring grade-level content, and practices and supports educators can provide to support students.

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge and skills about students with disabilities as related to state and federal legislation and case law. The course provides information about appropriate legal and ethical practices and different disability categories. The course content includes information on how to create a successful learning environment, the components and team members of the individualized education process and using models of support for students with disabilities to ensure success with the general education curriculum.

This course enables educators to develop, increase, and demonstrate knowledge to select instructional practices to meet individual learner needs. Participants will learn about analyzing educational activities to effectively develop and implement accommodations that allow students with disabilities to participate in a meaningful general curriculum. Course content includes instructional interventions and tools, communication, consultation, and collaboration with other stakeholders.

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge and skills in assessing and designing behavior supports and identifying the legal and ethical issues pertaining to behavioral strategies. Activities focus on identifying data collection strategies and identifying and interpreting elements of a functional behavior assessment and functional behavior intervention plan. Information is included on how to recognize and use various models of positive behavior management.

The Exploring Structured Literacy course is comprised of six units of study exploring the foundational information of literacy learning in the state of Florida and the six components of structured literacy: phonology, sound/symbol correspondences and syllables, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The primary focus of the course content and assessment tasks is demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the components of structured literacy and pedagogy that are explicit, systematic, sequential, and multisensory for students with persistent reading difficulties and/or characteristics of dyslexia.

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge about how to apply the guidelines of differentiating instruction to mathematics instruction. Emphasis is on evidence-based practices structured by a responsive decision-making framework in order for all students to achieve at the highest possible level. Content includes how to use pre-assessment, continuous assessment, and summative assessments to design and deliver effective lessons for initial instruction in mathematics and how to effectively use flexible small group instruction to respond to individual learner needs.

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge about applying the guidelines of differentiation to science instruction for the purposes of increasing student achievement for all learners. Content and activities emphasize how to use pre-assessment, continuous assessment, and summative assessments to design and deliver effective science lessons for whole group initial instruction and how to effectively use flexible small group instruction and individualized instruction, when needed, to respond to each student's needs.

Participants will learn and apply each step of the formative assessment process to increase student achievement. Participants will develop skills for using data-based decision making to be responsive to each student’s needs.

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge about assistive technology devices and services and the process of helping students with disabilities select, obtain, and use assistive technology. Content includes information about the impact of identified areas of disability including vision impairments, deaf or hard of hearing, orthopedic impairments, speech and language impairments, intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities, and how assistive technology devices and services can support students. Each unit helps participants develop a basic understanding of the effects of each type of disability on learning and to gain a beginning level of knowledge of assistive technology that can be implemented to support students with the disability focus area of the unit.

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge about proactively providing a universally designed and differentiated environment in order to maximize student achievement for all students. Emphasis is on the importance of having clarity about the learning targets and proactively adjusting instruction utilizing a data-based decision making process that considers students' readiness for the content, interests, and learning preferences. Content and activities emphasize how to proactively provide important, engaging, and appropriately challenging work via flexible grouping methods and utilizing a variety of instructional strategies and supports.

This course is designed to help identify the components and frameworks of Universal Design for Learning, instructional technology, accessible educational materials, and assistive technology. The course will address these frameworks and how to use them to support diverse learners in the classroom.

This course was designed to provide a deeper understanding of the process of reading comprehension, evidence-based instructional practices for teaching reading comprehension, and to introduce a variety of technology supports and tools that educators and students can use to enhance the understanding of text. This knowledge building will enable you to recognize the complexity of reading comprehension, where students may need support in acquiring grade-level content, and practices and supports educators can provide to support students

This course enables educators to develop, increase and demonstrate knowledge about the Matrix of Services. Content and activities examine the requirements for matrix completion and provide the opportunity to accurately complete a matrix for students with disabilities. The course identifies how student educational needs and services impact the matrix funding document.

This course enables participants to develop, increase, and demonstrate knowledge about the requirements and steps involved in becoming a surrogate parent, from application through completion of services. This course also provides an opportunity for participants to become acquainted with background information on the district's responsibility in recruiting, training, appointing, and terminating surrogate parents. The course reviews which students are eligible for a surrogate parent and why the need exists for such services.