Instructional Methods: Students with Hearing Loss

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Name the factors that contribute to the unique learning needs of students with hearing loss.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the ELA, Science, Social Studies, and Math content and curriculum sequence included in the NC Essential Standards along with strategies to modify the content for deaf and hard of hearing students.

• Identify characteristics of the Deaf culture and the place of Deaf culture within education of dhh student.

• Provide appropriate strategies for students who are D/HH and/or have multiple disabilities and special needs.

• Write individualized education plans, including a transition plan for students with hearing loss.

• Compose a special delivery plan for students who are D/HH and/or have multiple disabilities and special needs.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the impact on students who are DHH of various educational placement options with regards to cultural identity, linguistic, academic and social-emotional development.

• Demonstrate collaboration strategies necessary to complete a complex task with colleagues.

• Modify instructional process and classroom environment to meet the physical, cognitive, cultural, and communication needs of students who are DHH.

• Demonstrate a broad, working knowledge of research-based learning strategies and their relationship to the learning of individual students with hearing loss.

• Demonstrate the use of knowledge about cultural and socio-economic factors in planning instructional strategies and activities that connect students to the curriculum.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
General Education InService/Workshop	20%
Service Delivery Project	20%
NC Standard Course of Study Deep Dive Lessons	20%
Mock edTPA mini unit	20%
Homework/Quizzes	20%

EVALUATION AND GRADING:  

100-95 A	94-93   A-
92-91   B+	90-87   B	86-85    B-
84-83   C+	82-79   C	78-77    C-
76-75   D +	74-72   D	71-70    D-
69 and below F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• Marzano, Classroom Instruction that Works: Researched Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (2001).

• Bullard, C The Itinerant Teacher’s Handbook, 2nd edition (2013)

• Moores, Donald F & Martin, David S, Deaf Learners: Developments in Curriculum and Instruction, (2006)

• Kluwin, Thomas & Stewart, David, Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Content, Strategies and Curriculum, (2001) * (although this text is older, it contains seminal content related to Deaf Education not found in other places)*

• Williams, Carl B, No Limits: A Practical Guide for Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, (2009)

• Knorrs, H & Marshark, M, Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations (2014)