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Clinical Residency in Special Education, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

Your Path to NC Teacher Licensure
  • K-12

    Prepares you to teach students with disabilities in grades K-12

  • 21

    Credit Hours

  • 100%

    Online

Offers

Fast-track program to clear your residency license

All classes offered online

Field experiences may be completed in your classroom

edTPA support embedded within each program

Personalized advising and licensure support

Clinical Residency in Special Education Program Overview

Pathway for Residency Teachers

North Carolina needs more special education teachers, and in order to fill vacancies, the state allows teachers to work in the school system with a bachelor’s degree as long as they obtain a NC teaching license within three years.

Our graduate certificate program supports non-certified teachers who have been hired to teach students with disabilities in North Carolina public schools. Coursework is designed to lead to NC Special Education (K-12) teacher certification.

Earn Your License Online

This residency licensure pathway is designed for working professionals. Courses are offered entirely online and field experiences may be completed in your own classroom. Dedicated faculty with extensive teaching experience teach all courses in this efficient and streamlined program.

Choose your Licensure Concentration

Students can select from two concentrations: Special Education: General Curriculum or Special Education: Adapted Curriculum.

  • General Curriculum - Prepares special educators to teach individuals with high incidence disabilities including specific learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, and other health impairments in Kindergarten through grade 12.
  • Adapted Curriculum - Prepares special educators to teach learners with significant intellectual and multiple disabilities from Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Our special education residency courses are offered at the graduate level. This is not a degree program, but all courses can be applied toward completion of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Special Education degree program.

View Student Learning Outcomes

Sample Courses

  • SED 501: Lifespan Development for Individuals with Disabilities
  • SED 511: Special Education K-12 Master of Arts in Teaching Internship
  • SED 512: Program Planning and Secondary Transition in Special Education
  • SED 513: Culturally Responsive Positive Behavior Intervention and Support
  • SEC 516: Assessment in School-based Settings Practicum

General Curriculum

  • SED 541: Foundations of Literacy
  • SED 543: Mathematics Instruction for Students with Disabilities

Adapted Curriculum

  • SED 531: Systemic Instruction for Learners with Multiple Disabilities
  • SED 532: Curriculum for Learners with Significant Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
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