Special education teachers wear more hats than anyone else in the building. These graduate courses give you research-based strategies across the most common populations and situations SPED teachers handle — and they all count for salary advancement and license renewal.
Teaching Students with Autism
Autism presentations vary enormously. A graduate course focused specifically on teaching strategies for students with autism gives you a deep toolkit that generalizes across presentations.
Educating Oppositional Children
Oppositional and defiant behaviors require a specific approach. Punitive systems escalate; connection-based systems de-escalate. A graduate course on oppositional children grounds your classroom response in current research.
Universal Design for Learning
UDL is the gold standard for inclusive classrooms. A graduate course on UDL principles transforms how you plan every unit — not just the individual IEP accommodations.
ADHD in Adolescents
Middle and high school students with ADHD face different challenges than elementary students. Content on ADHD in adolescents equips you to support executive function, attention, and self-regulation at the right developmental level.
Differentiated Instruction
SPED teachers are differentiation experts. A formal graduate course on differentiation systematizes what you already do intuitively and gives you the vocabulary to coach general education colleagues.
All available in our graduate course catalog.