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SPED 100 - Intro to the Exceptional Child - Dr. Tim Fiegen
 * //(the best way to contact me is though campus email, tim.fiegen@dsu.edu) //** [|First Day]

APPROVED COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of various exceptionalities and implications of education; the history and philosophy of special education; and state and federal legislation affecting special education. Includes level I field experience. . [|Elluminate]

TEXTBOOK INFORMATION: Heward, William L. (2006) //__Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education 8th Edition.__// Prentice-Hall Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2006 - These are older books and can only be purchased online. Here is a a link to [|half-price] textbooks.com and you will find it by searching for Heward 8th edition. Spend as little as possible. You will not need one in good shape as there will not be a market for them.

Evaluation Procedures: For this course, there will be a number of things evaluated. Each chapter will have an checkup quiz that you will take and submit! Each chapter will have a chapter test at the end that you will take in D2L. Each chapter will have at least one project that you will do and be graded dealing with the chapter. Some chapters will have more than one project.


 * 11 Chapter Check-up Quizzes |||||| 55 points ||
 * 11 Chapter Note Outlines |||||| 55 Points ||
 * 11 Chapter Web Projects |||||| 55 points ||
 * 11 Chapter Tests |||||| 240 points ||
 * Final Test |||||| 50 Points ||
 * IDEA Paper |||||| 20 points ||
 * Field Experience Papers |||||| 25 points ||
 * Total |||||| 500 ||
 * A= 94% AND ABOVE || B= 86-93% || C= 78-85% || D= 70-78% || F= 69% AND BELOW ||