Special Education Courses
COURSE: Instructional Reading and Writing
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
Instructional reading and writing implements LANGUAGE!- a comprehensive literacy curriculum that provides effective, explicit, sequential, linguistically logical and systematic instruction for struggling readers, writers, speakers, and spellers.
COURSE: Instructional General Math
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
This class is designed to develop and improve the accuracy of mathematical computation and number sense. Emphasis is put on a logical, sequential development of the arithmetic of all rational numbers. Concepts are presented within the context of practical situations (ex. finance) that are familiar to most students.
COURSE: Instructional Applied Math
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
This class is designed to develop and improve fluency and accuracy with rational numbers. Emphasis is put on ratios and proportional relationships, expressions and equations, and utilizing formulas. In this course, students will apply mathematics within the context of practical situations.
COURSE: Instructional Pre-Algebra
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITE: Teacher recommendation
CREDIT: 1
OVERVIEW:
This course is designed to build confidence in Algebra for those who may not be mathematically oriented. The approach uses practical ideas and concepts such that fundamental algebraic theories are more easily understood. The student learns to use Algebra as a computational tool. Algebra I is the next course in the student's math sequence.
COURSE: Instructional World History
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITE: Teacher recommendation
CREDIT: 1
OVERVIEW:
World History is a required semester class in social studies for ½ credit. It is a required class for sophomores and is also required for graduation. World History will be a study of early world history, from early civilizations of 3000 BC through early modern times in world history to about 1800. Early civilizations will include a study of ancient Egypt, Sumer, China, and India. Early empires of 400 BC to 500 AD will include Ancient Greece and Rome. Medieval studies will include Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world. Early modern times will include the Renaissance and Reformation, and exploration.
COURSE: Instructional Government
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
Students will learn how a government achieves the purposes and description. Students will also learn how to take an active role in local, state and federal governments. Students will learn how local, state, and federal governments impact our daily lives. All students need to pass the Federal Constitution Test in this course.
COURSE: Instructional Health
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
This one semester class is designed to explore subjects that help students apply health issues more effectively in their lives. Units of study include the major body systems, communicable and non-communicable diseases, the use and abuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco, mental and physical health, nutrition, and first aid.
COURSE: Instructional Life Science
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW: This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study and experience both concrete and abstract topics related to life science. The material will be presented at a level that is compatible with the students' abilities utilizing inquiry techniques, reading, research, and experiments. During this course, instruction may be delivered in a one to one, small group, or large group format. This class serves as the first half of a yearlong life science curriculum. The first semester of this course will focus on topics such as the scientific method, the classification and characteristics of living things, and the parts and functions of cells
COURSE: Instructional Earth Science
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
This class is designed to offer the student a basic study both concrete and abstract topics of earth science. The material will be presented at a level compatible to student abilities, using experimentation, inquiry techniques, reading, and research. The instruction is small group and large group. This class serves as half of a yearlong earth science curriculum. The first semester of the course will focus on topics such as the earth's structure and formation. Identifying rocks and minerals, weather, and natural disasters. The second semester's focus will shift to sources of energy, oceans, and the solar system.
COURSE: Instructional American History I & II
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
American History I & II are both semester courses required for graduation. American History I will begin with the Reconstruction period and end with the study of the New Deal. During the study of this time period attention will also be given to the Western Frontier, The Industrial Age, Immigrants & Urbanization, Life at the Turn of the Century, The Progressive Era, American Imperialism, World War I, The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. Through the study of the aforementioned topics students will also study, where applicable, the domestic, economic, foreign, geographical, political and social ramifications of those topics to American History and Culture. The specific learning styles and abilities of the students is taken into consideration when determining the amount and type of homework and individual reading the course will contain.
COURSE: Instructional Consumer Education
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
Instructional Consumer Education is a class developed to meet the needs of special students, in acquiring the basic skills necessary to start an independent life. Consumer Education deals with the concepts of locating an apartment, handling finances, health care, checking accounts, and many others.
COURSE: REI English I
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
English I is a prerequisite for all other English courses. Students will be introduced to the principles of paragraph and essay composition. Students will also be introduced to the literary genres of the short story, poetry, drama, and the novel. Writing assignments related to each of these genres will be required. The elements of fiction will be also be emphasized and writing assignments will call for an analysis of material read in class.
This is a team-taught class where a regular education teacher and special education teacher provide instruction.
COURSE: REI Intro to Biology
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
The objective of this course is to provide students with information and experiences to study living things in the five major kingdoms. Major topics of study include: ecology, the cell, genetics, disease, zoology, human anatomy, and botany. The focus of this class will be the areas of biology that are most important to people. Humans, of course, are an important factor in the environment of our planet. We will look at our role in the ecosystem and see how other living things affect us and how we can affect them.
This is a team-taught class where a regular education teacher and special education teacher provide instruction.
COURSE: REI Applied Natural Science
(An Integration of Earth, Physical, and Environmental Science)
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITE: Algebra I recommended
OVERVIEW:
This sophomore class is designed to help students better understand the nature of the physical universe. This is a one-year program from which the student will receive 1 credit with the successful completion of the course. Course content will include instruction in the following: earth science, weather, atmosphere, environmental science, and space science.
Physical science topics (atoms, chemical reactions, and forces of nature) will be integrated throughout. Course material will be covered using a variety of methods including: assigned readings, audio-visual presentations, teacher lecture, demonstrations, and student participation in laboratory experiences. A background in algebra will be necessary for some of the problem solving that is performed in this class.
This is a team-taught class where a regular education teacher and special education teacher provide instruction.
COURSE: STEP
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
Students will receive training to assist them in gaining the knowledge and skills necessary to find and keep a job. Training will center on four major areas.
1. Helping students understand how important attitudes, motivation, values, and communication are in getting and keeping a job;
2. Helping students find out what they want to do for a living, what type of life style they want for themselves and their family (specific jobs, the education you need for them, how these jobs might help you meet your life and career goals);
3. Learning to find and get a job (places to look for job openings, following up on job openings, developing resumes, completing job applications, learning the do's and don’ts of interviewing, and learning the things one needs to know about a job before accepting it);
4. Keeping a job (how you can keep a job once you get it; what the employer expects of you as an employee, what you can expect from an employer, how to establish good working relationships with fellow workers, how to manage your money, and how to develop a family budget).
COURSE: Independent Living
OPEN TO: Grades 9-12
PREREQUISITES: Teacher recommendation
OVERVIEW:
The objective of this two-semester course is to teach/re-teach skills necessary for individuals to be self-sufficient in today’s society. Special attention will be given to allow students to actually go into the community, practice lessons after they have been taught and practiced in the classroom, and around the school. Studies will include cooking, budgeting, shopping, doing laundry, using finances, safety, personal health and other matters.
COURSE: Transitional Planning
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OVERVIEW:
This year-long course is designed to allow students to get extensive practice and mastery of the many skills they will need to be successful, independent members of society after their public education ends. Units are designed to provide more practical experience in the following areas: identifying and accessing needed community services; critically solving a variety of personal problems; demonstrating self-confidence in a variety of settings; recognizing academic and personal needs for success in post-secondary school; recognizing the legal and moral responsibilities of an employed citizen in our community and preparing to be successful managing those responsibilities.