EDS 652 – Foundations of Special Education
Common Course Assessment: Resource Kit
Common Course Standards
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2012 Advanced Preparation Standards
Standard 1: Learner Development and Individual Learning Differences
Standard 3: Curricular Content Knowledge
Standard 5: Instructional Planning and Strategies
InTASC Standards
Standard 1: Learner Development
Standard 2: Learning Differences
Standard 4: Content Knowledge
Standard 7: Planning for Instruction
Standard 8: Instructional Strategies
Directions to the Student
Write a description of the characteristics and needs of individuals for each disability/disorder
category, determine and describe strategies or methods of teaching students with each
disability/disorder, and discuss how a student with each disability/disorder could receive an
appropriate education in a general education classroom utilizing appropriate
accommodations and supports.
Rubric for Resource Kit:
Elements
The candidate
is dedicated to
making
knowledge
accessible to
all students.
CEC 5
InTASC 7, 8
The candidate
understands
and can
identify
differences in
approaches to
learning and
performance.
CEC 1
Distinguished
(3)
Proficient
(2)
Progressing
(1)
Unsatisfactory
(0)
Candidate
designs and
implements
instruction and
assessments that
make knowledge
accessible to all
students.
Candidate
designs and
implements
instruction and
assessments that
make knowledge
accessible to
most but not all
students
Candidate
designs and
implements
instruction and
assessments that
make knowledge
accessible to
some students.
Candidate
displays little
understanding of
how to make
knowledge
accessible to all
students.
Candidate
displays solid
understanding of
different
approaches to
learning and
performance,
and designs and
implements
instruction that
Candidate
displays solid
understanding of
different
approaches to
learning and
performance and
designs
instruction that
helps use
Candidate
displays basic
understanding of
different
approaches to
learning and
performance.
Candidate
displays little
understanding of
different
approaches to
learning and
performance.
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InTASC 1, 2
uses students'
strengths as the
basis for growth.
students'
strengths as the
basis for growth.
The candidate
treats students
equitably. They
recognize the
individual
differences
that
distinguish
their students
from one
another and
they take
account for
these
differences in
their practice.
Candidate
accurately
identifies his or
her students’
strengths, areas
for improvement,
preferences, and
interests and
designs
instruction to
meet theses
individual needs.
Candidate
accurately
identifies his or
her students’
strengths, areas
for improvement,
preferences, and
interests and can
occasionally
design
instruction to
meet theses
individual needs.
Candidate
accurately
identifies
students’
strengths, areas
for improvement,
preferences, and
interests most of
the time, and
can occasionally
design
instruction to
meet these
individual needs.
Candidate can
not accurately
identify student
strengths, areas
for improvement,
interests, and
preferences nor
design
instruction to
meet individual
needs.
Candidate
displays and
demonstrates a
solid
understanding of
exceptionality in
learningincluding
learning
disabilities,
visual and
perceptual
difficulties, and
special physical
or mental
challenges.
Candidate
displays solid
understanding of
exceptionality in
learningincluding
learning
disabilities,
visual and
perceptual
difficulties, and
special physical
or mental
challenges.
Candidate
displays general
understanding of
exceptionality in
learning.
Candidate is
unfamiliar with
areas of
exceptionality in
learning.
Candidate
demonstrates
high level of
knowledge
regarding how
students develop
and learn.
Candidate
demonstrates
moderate level of
knowledge
regarding how
students develop
and learn.
Candidate
demonstrates
minimal level of
knowledge
regarding how
students develop
and learn.
Candidate
demonstrates
little to
knowledge
regarding how
students develop
and learn.
CEC 5
InTASC 7, 8
The candidate
knows about
areas of
exceptionality
in learningincluding
learning
disabilities,
visual and
perceptual
difficulties, and
special
physical or
mental
challenges.
CEC 3
InTASC 4
The candidate
understands
how students
develop and
learn.
CEC 1
InTASC 1
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The candidate
identifies and
designs
instruction
appropriate to
students'
stages of
development,
learning styles,
strengths, and
needs.
Candidate
consistently
identifies,
designs, and
implements
instruction
appropriate to
each student’s
stage of
development,
learning style,
and strengths.
Candidate
identifies and
designs
instruction
appropriate to
students’ stages
of development,
learning styles,
strengths, and
needs.
Candidate
identifies some
instruction
appropriate to
students’ stages
of development,
learning styles,
strengths, and
needs.
Candidate is
unable to identify
instruction
appropriate to
students’ stages
of development,
learning styles,
strengths, and
needs.
Candidate is
highly successful
creating and
implementing
appropriate
provisions (in
terms of time &
circumstances
for work, tasks
assigned,
communication
and response
modes) for
individual
students who
have particular
learning
differences or
needs. Students
benefit from the
provisions
created.
Candidate
creates and
implements
appropriate
provisions (for
individual
students who
have particular
learning
differences or
needs.
Candidate
attempts to
make some
appropriate
provisions for
individual
students who
have particular
learning
differences or
needs.
Candidate is
unable to make
any appropriate
provisions for
individual
students who
have particular
learning
differences or
needs.
CEC 1, 5
InTASC 2, 7, 8
The candidate
respects the
cultural and
family
differences
students bring
to the
classroom.
They make
appropriate
provisions (in
terms of time &
circumstances
for work, tasks
assigned,
communication
and response
modes) for
individual
students who
have particular
learning
differences or
needs.
CEC 1, 5
InTASC 2, 7, 8
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The candidate
can identify
when and how
to access
appropriate
services or
resources to
meet
exceptional
learning needs.
Candidate is
aware and can
identify when,
how, and where
to access
appropriate
services or
resources to
meet exceptional
learning needs.
Candidate can
identify when
and how to
access
appropriate
services or
resources to
meet exceptional
learning needs.
Candidate
displays limited
awareness of
when and how to
access
appropriate
services or
resources to
meet exceptional
learning needs.
Candidate cannot
identify when
and how to
access
appropriate
services or
resources to
meet exceptional
learning needs.
CEC 3
InTASC 4
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