SEMESTER 6

Understanding Students with Exceptionalities

This course introduces Liberian pre-service teachers to understanding students with exceptionalities, focusing on the challenges they face in the classroom, opportunities for inclusion, and strategies for supporting their success. The objectives include recognizing human diversity, planning support for students with exceptionalities, applying social model approaches to inclusive education, using person-first language, reflecting on and confronting ableism, understanding academic remediation methods, reinforcing the use of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), developing strategies for positive behavioral supports, and identifying the appropriate use of adaptations, accommodations, and modifications for learners with disabilities.

SEMESTER 6

Issues of Gender Equity and Access in Education

This packet supports the teacher education course "Issues of Gender, Equity, and Access in Education," aiming to help Liberian teachers and teacher-aspirants promote gender equality in classrooms by recognizing and challenging gender stereotypes that can hinder educational and professional opportunities for both genders, particularly focusing on early childhood development where these stereotypes are formed.

SEMESTER 6

Diagnostic & Prescriptive Advanced Methods for Primary Grades Math

Diagnostic and prescriptive mathematics teaching in the primary grades with an emphasis on research-based practices and processes for identifying error patterns and misconceptions and implementing age-appropriate remediation.

SEMESTER 6

Advanced Practices and Processes for Teaching Early Childhood Math

This course covers pedagogical issues and perspectives of teaching culturally relevant and inclusive mathematics in the early childhood grades through research-based practices and the processes of Problem Solving, Communication, Connections, Reasoning and Proof, and Representation.

SEMESTER 6

Action Research in the Classroom

This course explores how action research methodology can be used to investigate changes to educational practices in early childhood and primary classrooms. Each teacher aspirant or student will develop an action research plan that allows for implementation, observation, and reflection upon that change.