Education Specialist Concentration (SPED)
JCL’s Mild-to-Moderate Education Specialist Preliminary Credential concentration thoroughly prepares you to teach students with exceptional needs.
If you have a calling for teaching children with disabilities, this program will prepare you with the knowledge and skills necessary for a successful and rewarding career teaching students with:
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Specific learning disabilities
- Emotional disturbances
- Mild-to-moderate intellectual disabilities
- Traumatic brain injury
- Other health impairments (including ADD and ADHD)
Credential offered: Mild/Moderate Education Specialist Preliminary Credential from the State of California
Benefits of our preliminary credential program:
Our program combines practical, current research, and theory with real-life classroom experiences to round out your education.
- Strong balance of theory to practice
- Personal attention from responsive and accessible faculty and staff
- Integrated approach to coursework and field placements
- Student teaching experience in your fourth year that goes beyond state requirements
- Field supervisors work closely with students in their teaching placements
- Every student assigned an academic advisor
- Admission to the credential program in fall of the student’s Sophomore year
Within this concentration we also offer a transfer student-friendly option referred to as the Integrated Special Education Teacher Education Program (INSTEP). Please visit our webpage to learn more.
Learn More:
Schedule an appointment with Isabella Navarro, JCL Teacher Education Coordinator. She is available to connect with you in person or by phone, 925-631-4304 or imn1@stmarys-ca.edu