Special%20Education%20Administration%20at%20a%20Crossroads:%20Training%20Special%20and%20General%20Education%20Administrators%20to%20Provide%20Educational%20Programming%20for%20All%20Students%20with%20Disabilities%20from%20Diverse%20Backgrounds

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University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Special Education Administration at a Crossroads
  Training Special and General Education
  Administrators to Provide Educational Programming
  for All Students with Disabilities from Diverse
  Backgrounds
• May, 2006
• Mary Lynn Boscardin, Ph.D. , Professor
• Matthew Militello, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

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1.0 Address and ameliorate of national, state,
and local level shortages of qualified
administrators of special education, especially
in the area of evidence-based service delivery
for students with disabilities from diverse
backgrounds through recruitment and matriculation
of highly qualified trainees.
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• 1.1 Disseminate Program Information
• 1.2 Contact and Recruit Underrepresented Students
• 1.3 Contact and Recruit Trainees with Disabilities

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2.0 Supply administrators and faculty to the
field of special education administration with
expertise in empirically-based service delivery
systems for addressing the educational needs of
students with disabilities from diverse
backgrounds using financial assistance and
incentives to recruit highly qualified trainees.
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• 2.1 Review Applications and Select Trainees
• 2.2 Make Awards to Trainees
• 2.3 Review Contractual Obligations with Trainees

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3.0 Establish a comprehensive training program
that will produce highly qualified trainees with
a focus on empirically-based service delivery
systems for addressing the educational needs of
students with disabilities from diverse
backgrounds that is co-managed by the Special
Education and Educational Administration Programs
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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• 3.1 Advise Trainees on Course Selection for
  Program of Study
• 3.2 Select Comprehensive and Dissertation
  Committee Members
• 3.3 Assess Competency Levels of Trainees in
  Special Education Administration
• 3.4 Identify Practicum/Internship Opportunities

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4.0 Implement a leadership training program that
provides administrators and faculty of special
education administration with leadership skills
built on collaborative relationships between
special and general education through
comprehensive training and experience in teaching
and research.
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• 4.1 Teach Courses and Seminars to Trainees
• 4.2 Infuse Knowledge and Skills Addressing the
  Needs of Students with Disabilities from Diverse
  Backgrounds
• 4.3 Provide Intensive and Supervised
  Research-to-Practice Practicum/Internships for
  Trainees
• 4.4 Supervise Trainee Research Projects and
  Presentations
• 4.5 Provide College Teaching Experiences for
  Doctoral Trainees

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5.0 Provide outreach services to other
preservice and inservice general and special
education administrators, teachers, and support
personnel in the area of evidence-based service
delivery for students with disabilities with
diverse needs at the national, state, and local
levels supervised by project faculty.
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• 5.1 Provide Doctoral Trainees with Opportunities
  to Supervise Special Education Pre-Service
  Educators
• 5.2 Provide Trainees with Opportunities to Train
  Inservice Special and General Educators

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6.0 Implement a system of monitoring and
evaluation to determine trainee progress and
stakeholder satisfaction with the training
program.
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• 6.1 Select Advisory Board Members
• 6.2 Evaluate Trainee Progress for all Project
  Requirements
• 6.3 Evaluate Employer Satisfaction with Trainees
• 6.4 Conduct an Annual Stakeholders Evaluation of
  the Project

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• 6.5 Evaluate Satisfaction of Practicum/Internship
  Supervisors
• 6.6 Evaluate Trainee Placement and Follow-up Data
• 6.7 Monitor and Evaluate Timeline and Task
  Progress
• 6.8 Evaluate Project Courses

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7.0 Personnel Preparation Performance Measures
Required by OSEP
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• 7.1 Scholars Successfully Complete Program
• 7.2 Evaluate the Extent to which Trainees are
  Employed in areas Trained upon Completion of the
  Program
• 7.3 Scholars who Exit Program Prior to Completion
  Due to Poor Academic Performance

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• 7.4 Evaluate the age of degree/certification
  Trainees who are Employed Upon Program Completion
  in the Areas for which they were Trained
• 7.5 Evaluate Project Courses for Current
  Knowledge Base on Effective Practices
• 7.6 Extent to which Trainees Maintain Employment
  for Three or More Years in Field they were Trained

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Crossroads Course of Study

• Core Special Education Administration Courses
• EDUC 653-Collaborative and Integrated Teaching
  Strategies in Special Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 669-Policy and Legal Perspectives in
  Special Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 760-Organization and Management of Pupil
  Personnel Services (3 credits)
• EDUC 808-Program Planning, Implementation and
  Evaluation in Special Education (3 credits)
• Core Administration Courses
• EDUC 692B-Policy Studies for Educational
  Administration (3 credits)
• EDUC 697J-Orchestrating Educational Reform (3
  credits)
• EDUC 726-Fundamentals of Educational
  Administration (3 credits)
• EDUC 729-Fiscal Management Community Relations
  (3 credits)
• EDUC 615F-Data and Technology (3 credits)
• EDUC 758-School Personnel Administration (3
  credits)
• EDUC 618-Law, Education, and Public Policy (3
  credits) or
• EDUC 856-Principles of School Law (3 credits)

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• Special Education Administration Seminar
• EDUC 880-Current Issues Facing Special Education
  Administrators (3 credits)
• Recommended Social Justice Education Electives
  (select one of the following courses)
• EDUC 648-Historical and Pedagogical Foundations
  of Social Justice Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 713-Developmental Foundations of Social
  Justice Education (3 credits)
• Practicum/Internship for Administrator of Special
  Education (select one of the following courses)
• EDUC 698N-Practicum-Administrator of Special
  Education (3-6 credits)
• EDUC 698V-Internship-Administrator of Special
  Education (3-6 credits)
• Practicum/Internship for the Principalship
  (select one of the following courses)
• EDUC 698Z-Practicum in Administrative
  Certification or (3-6 credits)
• EDUC 863-Internship in Administration Clinical
  Experience (3-6 credits)
• State or Federal Practicum/Internship for
  Administrator of Special Education
• EDUC 698-State or Federal Practicum/Internship in
  Special Education Administration (6 credits)
• TOTAL 43-52 credits

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• Research Requirement
• Acceptable research courses are as follows
• EDUC 555-Introduction to Statistics and Computer
  Analysis I (3 credits)
• EDUC 656-Introduction to Statistics and Computer
  Analysis II (3 credits)
• EDUC 771-Multivariate Statistics I (3 credits)
• EDUC 793L-Qualitative Research Methods (3
  credits)
• EDUC 789-In-depth Interviewing and Issues in
  Qualitative Research in Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 797A-Qualitative Data Analysis (3 credits).
• Comprehensive Examination Requirement
• Dissertation Requirement