M/M Education Specialist Credential

Introduction

If you already possess a multiple of single subject credential and wish to build upon your existing teaching qualifications, our M/M Education Specialist Credential will help you foster a more inclusive classroom environment. Expand your breadth of knowledge and prepare to further enhance the educational experience for students with distinctive learning challenges. By learning advanced collaboration skills and targeted teaching techniques, you’ll be equipped to teach any student, in any classroom.

This credentialing program is offered by AU Santa Barbara.

Program Overview

A unique, 9-month program designed for those who already possess a multiple or single subject credential to add the Preliminary Education Specialist Instruction Credential: Mild-to-Moderate Disabilities to their existing teaching qualifications.

Special Education Credential candidates learn collaboration skills for inclusive environments.  Candidates experience:

• Two quarters (six months) of field based experience in a K-12 special education setting
• Knowledge and skills necessary to work with second language learners’ English Language Development

Candidates in the Education Specialist Mild/Moderate Program who are teachers with intern credentials may use their own classrooms to satisfy most of the fieldwork requirements. They are supervised by district appointed personnel in addition to Antioch University Santa Barbara Field Supervisors.

The Education Specialist Instruction Credential: Mild/Moderate Disabilities authorizes the holder to conduct assessments, provide instruction, and special education related services to individuals in grades K-12 and up to the age of 22, with specific learning disabilities, mild/moderate mental retardation, other health impairment, emotional disturbance, and autism spectrum disorders within the disability area.

Degree Requirements

Requirements:

This program requires 32 units and can be completed in three quarters.

Course Sequence

Fall Quarter:

• Comprehensive Behavior Assessment and Positive Behavior Support
• Exploratory Practicum in Special Education (2)
• Individualized Education Design & Policy Implementation
• Assistive Technology
• Intro to Autism Spectrum Disorder

Winter Quarter:

• Student Teaching Mild/Moderate with Professional Seminar I
• Assessment in Special Education
• Understanding and Teaching Students with mild and MOderate Disabilities I
• Language Arts Curricula: Theory & Methods

Spring Quarter

• Student Teaching Mild/Moderate with Professional Seminar I
• Understanding and Teaching Students with Mild and Moderate Disabilities II
• Family Dynamics and Communication for Special Education Services
• Intro to Autism Spectrum Disorder

For detailed curriculum, degree requirements, and course descriptions, please visit the AUSB Course catalog.

Admissions

Admissions requirements and process for teaching credential programs

Before You Enroll

• Take and pass the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST). This test is required of all students in teacher preparation programs in California. Please review the registration deadlines and test dates as soon as possible, as the CBEST is offered a limited number of times each year. For more information about the CBEST, visit cbest.nesinc.com.
• Register for or have taken the CSET prior to enrollment. Passing the CSET is not an admissions requirement.
• Please note that all students who earn a California Preliminary Multiple Subject Teaching Credential MUST pass both the CBEST and CSET.

Cost

Please note: Additional fees for all AUSB programs may include (but are not necessarily limited to) charges for materials, late registration, enrollment maintenance, parking, graduation, transcripts, tuition payment plan, late payments, late registration, and returned checks.

About the Credentials

Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Teacher Credentialing programs are approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC/CTC), 1900 Capital Ave., Sacramento, CA 95811-4213; phone (916) 445-7254. All credential programs offered by Antioch University Santa Barbara are CCTC Approved Professional Preparation Programs. To view a report of recent pass rate assessment for our programs and other California institutions see (Reports, Appendix A of Report on Teacher Credentialing Programs): Annual Accreditation Report to the Commission on California Teacher Credentialing for the Academic Year 2015-2016. View: 2016-2017 State Exams Pass Report by Exam. View: 2016-2017 State Exams Pass Report by Title II Group