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SPED 6691 - Seminar in Professional Development and Leadership

Instructor of Record: Dr. Wendy M. Wood

  

2		 COURSE DESCRIPTION - Special Education teachers are required to gain greater insights and skills in evaluating their own and student performance, and designing and conducting research projects in their classrooms and schools. Teachers are expected to use the latest technology for their own learning, for more effective instruction, and for communication with others. This course provides the necessary support for students to plan and synthesize their learning in relationship to all five program goals. The 3-course sequence offers one of several means for students to fulfill two guidelines set forth by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction; one focuses on the learning process and evaluation of learning, and the other focuses on the expectation of conducting classroom research. This latter guideline, pertaining to classroom research, is also part of the standards for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Educators.  (SPED 6691 must be repeated for a total of 3 credit hours.)  

3		 CAPSTONE PROJECT - The Master's capstone project is designed to challenge you to integrate your newly acquired knowledge and skills into one final project.  Prior to 2000, Master's students took comprehensive examinations as their capstone (or culminating) experience. The Master's Research and Portfolio Projects are designed to provide a richer and more authentic experience to integrate and apply the aggregate of knowledge and skills from your Master's course work. 

To successfully complete your Capstone Project, it will be necessary for you to demonstrate behaviors characteristic of three important professional qualities: INITIATIVE, INDEPENDENCE, and SCHOLARSHIP.

INITIATIVE - the ability to start and follow through with a plan of action or task (Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary). 

INDEPENDENCE - being self-reliant.

SCHOLARSHIP - approaching this important task with serious attention to scholarship, means using accepted methods of research and acknowledging the achievements of other researchers (scholars) by appropriately citing and referencing their work in your work.

  


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 PORTFOLIO PROJECT or RESEARCH STUDY?  Which should you do?

Special Education M.Ed. Students are required to conduct a research study and leadership project. 

M.A.T Students - Most MAT students will complete the portfolio project for their capstone project.  M.A.T. students interested in conducting a research study require the approval of your advisor.  It is important to know that conducting a research study will take more than three semesters to complete.
AIG M.Ed. Students have a choice as to which project you want to complete.  Meet and discuss both options with your advisor to make a decision as to whether to complete a research study or a portfolio project.   

Interest in a PhD?  If you have any interest in pursuing a PhD, a research study is the recommended activity for your capstone project.
 

  


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 STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET - Complete the Student Information Sheet


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MAT Portfolio Project

 
 M.Ed. Students -
Research Project


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OFFICE HOURS
 Student responsibilities to your advisor.
A CENTRA ONLINE OFFICE HOURS
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 or responsibilities to your student.

OFFICE HOURS
 Student responsibilities to your advisor.
ACENTRA ONLINE OFFICE HOURS
              NOW AVAILABLE


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PORTFOLIO STUDENTS
 
              ANNOUNCEMENTS/ALERTS
Check here for changes on class meeting schedule.
 

RESEARCH STUDENTS
            
              ANNOUNCEMENTS/ALERTS
 

 


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 ADVISEE, ADVISOR, COMMITTEE MEMBER LIST - There is no doubt there are mistakes in this table.  As you see mistakes, please send me an email to correct them.  Thanks.  Dr. Wood

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 New!!!  SUMMER SCHOOL SIGN-UP PAGE  - Phase B & C students who want to take the summer session of SPED 6691 should use this  ë link.
                             New (Phase A) 6691 students CANNOT enroll in summer sessions of SPED 6691.                              

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Advisors' Corner Portfolio
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to guide your students through SPED 6691

Advisors' Corner Research
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