PSY 503 - Academic Interventions (3 cr.)

A focus of this course is the Response to Intervention model (Grades K-12). This course will present an overview of New York State (NYS) regulations of regular and special education, staffing roles within a school, components of an effective classroom, formative and summative assessments, components of academic learning, deficits of learning, how to assess and identify academic learning, accurately choose evidence-based interventions based on the identified deficit area, and what it takes to monitor the progress of those interventions. Graduate students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding and knowledge of academic interventions with students in Grades K-12 who are demonstrating difficulties.
Prerequisite(s): school psychology graduate student.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall