{"id":177,"date":"2024-04-25T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:51:07","slug":"msped-pathway-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/msped-pathway-one\/","title":{"rendered":"MSpEd Pathway One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">You have a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in a discipline outside of education (e.g. History, Art, Social Work, etc.) and want to be a licensed special education teacher and earn your master&rsquo;s degree.<\/p>\n<h2>Program Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Credit Requirements:<\/strong> 52 credits<\/li>\n<li><strong>Program Length:<\/strong> 7-8 semesters of coursework (including summer semesters)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Courses:<\/strong> 16-18 courses<\/li>\n<li>12-week student teaching (can be completed in your own classroom if you are teaching in a special education setting on Tier 1 or 2 license by the time you start student teaching).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pathway One Coursework<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Course Number<\/th>\n<th>Course Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5600<\/td>\n<td>Foundations of Special Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ED 5201<\/td>\n<td>LA I<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ED 6140<\/td>\n<td>Diversity &amp; Equity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ED 5100<\/td>\n<td>Intro to Ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5655<\/td>\n<td>Due Process Foundations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 6605<\/td>\n<td>Due Process: Evaluation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5715<\/td>\n<td>Foundations of Instruction for Special Educators<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5665<\/td>\n<td>Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (Weeks 1&ndash;8)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5450<\/td>\n<td>ABS Educational Psychology (Weeks 9&ndash;16)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5650<\/td>\n<td>Collaboration: Parents, Practitioners, and Professional<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 6603<\/td>\n<td>Math Methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5620<\/td>\n<td>SLD Methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 6608<\/td>\n<td>Reading Methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5750<\/td>\n<td>Applied Behavior Analysis for Teachers (Weeks 1&ndash;8)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5400<\/td>\n<td>Instructional Decision Making (Weeks 1&ndash;8)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5570<\/td>\n<td>ASD &amp; DCD Methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5107<\/td>\n<td>Special Education Seminar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 5840<\/td>\n<td>Academic and Behavioral Strategist Student Teaching<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 6650<\/td>\n<td>Advanced Practicum Strategies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 6610<\/td>\n<td>Applying Special Education Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPED 6800<\/td>\n<td>Master&rsquo;s Comprehensive Examination<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in a discipline outside of education (e.g. History, Art, Social Work, etc.) and want to be a licensed special education teacher and earn your master&rsquo;s degree. Program Requirements Credit Requirements: 52 credits Program Length: 7-8 semesters of coursework (including summer semesters) Courses: 16-18 courses 12-week student teaching (can be completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/special-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}