Standard 5: Comprehensive Prevention and Early Intervention for Achievement
The program provides candidates with opportunities and experiences to display an understanding of the factors that contribute to successful learning. In order to help pupils attain high learning goals, the program provides candidates with the knowledge to identify problems in their earliest stages and to implement prevention and early intervention strategies for addressing these problems. The program requires candidates to demonstrate knowledge of classroom, school, family, and community factors that support pupil learning and to develop skills to assist pupils who experience learning difficulties.
1. Strategies, Methods, and Approaches for the Prevention of Problems
All candidates demonstrate the understanding of the strategies, methods, and approaches to prevent the development of problems that impede learning in the following courses:
Psychology 277 - Role and Function of the School Psychology
o Roles: Prevention- Session 17
*Psychology 278 - Intervention and Prevention
o Earning Objective- 1
o School Wide 3-Tier Intervention/Peer Mediation - Session 10
o Three-Tier Model for Social Skills/Bullying/GLBT Awareness -
Session 12
Three-Tier Model for Anxiety/ Depression - Session 13
Three-Tier Model for Health Promotion - Session 15
Psychology 270T-2 - Working with Diverse Students and Families
o Creating educational environments that promote acceptance -
Section 1-2
o Resources for Home-School collaboration - Section 1 - Session 3
Psychology 286 - Instructional Consultation and Intervention
o Goals 1,3
o Direct Assessment of Academic Skills - Session 5
o Reading Decoding- Session 9
o Reading Intervention programs- Session 17
o Research into Practice- Session 28
Psychology 284 - Assessment of Intellectual Abilities
o Preschool Assessment - Session 28
Psychology 285 - Assessment of Learning and Developmental Problems
Learning Objectives - 1,3
TI and Tier 1 - Session 24
Best Practice - Session 25
TI-tier 2 & 3 - Session 26
Making instructional and accountability Decisions - Session 27
Class Discussion: assessment and development - Session 28
2. Less than Satisfactory Pupil Academic Progress
All candidates demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of pupils whose academic progress is less than satisfactory in the course:
*Psychology 286 - Instructional Consultation and Intervention
o Goal 1,2
o Multicultural Issues in Instructional Consultation for ELL Students - Sessions
1
o Instructional Environment – Session 3
o Reading Interventions with ESL Students - Sessions 26, 27
Psychology 284 - Assessment of Intellectual Abilities
o Learning Objectives-2,3
Psychology 285 - Assessment of Learning and Developmental Problems
o The entire course. Coursed is based on assessment of less than satisfactory pupil
academic progress.
3. Institutional and Environmental Conditions
Each candidate demonstrates knowledge of institutional and environmental conditions that place pupils at risk for failure of early school dropout in the following courses:
Psychology 278 - Intervention and Prevention
o Learning Objective - 2
o School Wide 3 - Tier Intervention/Peer Mediation - Session 10
o Three-Tier Model for Social Skills/Bullying/GLBT Awareness -
Session 12
o Three-Tier Model for Health Promotion - Session 15
*Psychology 286 - Instructional Consultation and Intervention
o Goals 1
o Multicultural Issues in Instructional Consultation for ELL Students - Sessions
1
o Teacher and Student Interviews – Session 2
o Instructional Environment – Session 3
Psychology 285 - Assessment of Learning and Developmental Problems
o Assessment in context: assessment in an ecological model- Session 2
4. Promotion of Academic Success
Each candidate demonstrates knowledge of a variety of strategies, programs, interventions, methods and techniques proven to, promote academic success in the course:
*Psychology 286 Instructional Consultation and Intervention
o Goal 5
o PreReading Skills: Print and Phonemic Awareness - Session 8
o Reading Decoding - Session 9
o Fluency - Session 10
o NASP Conference - Session 11-12
o Computer-Based Reading Intervention Program - Session 13
o Reading Comprehension - Session 14
o Direct Instruction - Session 15
o Reading Disabilities - Session 16
o Reading intervention programs - Session 17
o Functional Reports - Session 18
o Writing Intervention - Session 20
o Classwide Peer Tutoring - Session 21
o Math Intervention - Session 22
o Research Critique #4: Topic - math intervention - Session 23
o SEIS Training - Session 24
o Intervention in Secondary Schools - Session 25
o Reading interventions with ESL students - Session 26
Psychology 285 - Assessment of Learning and Developmental Problems
o Special Education Eligibility - Session 5
o Making Instructional and accountability Decisions - Sessions 27
5. Conflict Resolution and Promotion of Positive Relationships
Each candidate demonstrates knowledge of methods and techniques for resolving conflicts between and among pupils and groups of pupils for promoting positive intercultural, inter ethnic relationships among pupils, family and school staff in the following coursework:
Psychology 270T-2 – Working with Diverse Students and Families
o Creating educational environments that promote acceptance -
Section 1, 2
o Resources for Home-School collaboration- Section 1- Session 3
o Supporting Families for Student Success- Section 1- Session 4
*Psychology 278 - Intervention and Prevention
o Learning Objectives - 2,3
o Three-Tier Model for Social Skills/Bullying/GLBT Awareness -
Session 12
o Three-Tier Model for School Violence/ Gangs/Resiliency Model - Session 14
o Three-Tier Model for Anxiety/Depression - Session 13
Psychology 279 - Consultation and Supervision
o Introduction to Consultation - Session 2
o Consultation in School Setting/Communication Skills/Problem Solving Model - Session
3
o Behavior Consultation/Consultation Stages - Session 6
Counseling 201 - Seminar in Multicultural Aspects of Counseling
o Learning Objectives - 1-6
o The multicultural journey to cultural competence: Personal Narratives - Session
1
o The Superordinate Nature of Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy - Session
2
o The politics of Counseling and Psychotherapy Ethical guidelines in multicultural
Counseling - Session 4
o Sociopolitical Considerations of Trust and Mistrust - Session 5
o Racial, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Micro-aggressions: Implications for Counseling
and Psychotherapy- Session 6
o Barriers to Effective Multicultural Counseling/ Therapy- Session 7
o Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies; Ethical considerations - Session
8
o Multicultural Family Counseling and Therapy- Session 9
o Non-Western and Indigenous Methods of Healing- Session 10
o Racial/Cultural Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications- Session 11
o White Racial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications -
Session 12
o Minority Group Therapists: Working with Majority and other Minority Clients -
Session 14
o Counseling and Therapy with Racial/Ethnic Minority Group Populations- Session
15,16
o Immersion/Emersion Project - Pg. 3
Counseling 240 - Seminar in Counseling of Exceptional Children & Their Families
o Outcomes- 1-8
o Family Partnership Project and Family Resource Binder - Pg, 2
o Defining a Special Needs Child overview of the Family Partnership Project - Session
2
o Family Support Services in Schools - Session 3
o Support for Siblings- Session 4
o Relationship-Focused Intervention; Attachment Issues - Session 5
o Collaboration and Partnership (School support services) - Session 8
o Fostering Effective Parent & Family Educational Advocacy - Session 9
o Designing & Implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions -
Session 11
o Academic Intervention Programs/Psychosocial Aspects of Development;Support Service
to Assist Parents & Families transition Planning & Programming - Session 12
6. Supportive Relationships
Each candidate demonstrates knowledge of methods of promoting positive and supportive relationships with pupils such as counseling, teacher collaboration, classroom consultation, advocacy, peer counseling and parent education in working with school staff, parents and other person having influence on pupils' lives in the following courses:
*Psychology 279 - Consultation and Supervision
o Introduction to Consultation - Session 2
o Consultation in School Setting/Communication Skills/ Problem Solving Model - Session
3
o Behavior Consultation/ Consultation Stages - Session 6
o Class Discussion of the Interview/Home-School/Collaboration/Working with Parents
- Session 25
o Home-School Collaboration Continued; Conjoint Behavior Consultation - Session
26
Counseling 201 Seminar in Multicultural Aspects of Counseling
o Learning Objectives - 1-6
o Sociopolitical Considerations of Trust and Mistrust- Session 5
o Racial, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Micro-aggressions: Implications for Counseling
and Psychotherapy - Session 6
o Multicultural Family Counseling and Therapy- Session 9
o Non-Western and Indigenous Methods of Healing- Session 10
o Racial/Cultural Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications - Session 11
o White Racial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications -
Session 12
o Minority Group Therapists: Working with Majority and other Minority Clients -
Session 14
o Counseling and Therapy with Racial/Ethnic Minority Group Populations - Session
15,16
o Immersion/ Emersion Project- Pg, 3
Counseling 240 - Seminar in Counseling of Exceptional Children & Their Families
o Outcomes- 1-7
o Family Interview Report and Family Resource Binder- Pg, 2
o Family Support Services in Schools - Session 3
o Supports for siblings - Session 4
o Collaboration and Partnership (School support services) - Session 8
o Fostering Effective Parent & Family Educational Advocacy - Session 9
o Designing & Implementing Positive Behavioral Intervention -
Session 11
o Academic Intervention Programs/Psychosocial Aspects of Dev. Support Services to
Assist Parents & Families transition Planning & Programming - Session 12
7. Grade Retention
Each candidate demonstrates knowledge of the effects of grade retention on achievement, learning, and social and emotional development in the course:
*Psychology 286 Instructional Consultation and Intervention
o Best practices in preventing academic failure and promoting alternatives to retention
- Session 28