Online Special Education Interventionist K-8 & 6-12 Graduate Certificate
Special Education Interventionist K-8 & 6-12
Program Overview
If you want to learn how to teach and improve the lives of exceptional students, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers a Special Education Interventionist K-8 and 6-12 Graduate Certificate. This fully online program provides advanced coursework that will prepare you to perform intervention work with K–12 students with various exceptionalities. The certification is specifically designed for teachers licensed in areas outside of exceptional education in Tennessee.
Become Certified in Special Education Intervention to Assist K-12 Exceptional Students
The Special Education Interventionist K-8 & 6-12 graduate certificate can be tailored to serve various career goals. For PreK-12 teachers licensed in areas outside of exceptional education, this graduate certificate can be used towards earning an additional endorsement in Special Education Interventionist K-8 & 6-12. For K-12 teachers licensed in English as a Second Language Education at the undergraduate level, non-licensed professionals who work in informal education settings, and others who engage in instructional opportunities with students who are acquiring a second language, this graduate certificate provides advanced coursework specifically designed to enhance capacities for designing effective instruction.
Admission Requirements
- Applicants can be currently admitted to a degree program at UTK or can apply solely for the Special Education Interventionist K-8 & 6-12 Graduate Certificate through the Graduate Admissions Office.
- All 12 credit hours of graduate coursework must be completed at the University of Tennessee within five years of applying for a certificate.
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Featured Courses
Student recipients of the Special Education Interventionist K-8 & 6-12 Graduate Certificate are required to successfully complete the following courses:
Provides foundational knowledge of learning needs, service delivery models, and critical issues in educating students with learning disabilities, including dyslexia, and other academic difficulties.
Determining and implementing best practices in assessment and instruction, both remediation and accommodation strategies, for students with learning disabilities, including dyslexia, and other academic difficulties.
Examines educational strategies and techniques for individual and class-wide behavior management and curriculum and teaching strategies for promoting the social and emotional development of students with emotional and behavioral disorders.
Current issues related to assessment; advanced study of evaluation models for special education; dynamic and other innovative assessment approaches; advanced study of application to educational programming; basic statistics and application in assessment.
