COURSE DETAILS, REQUIRED READING
| Site: | Colorado Education Learning Management System |
| Course: | 2e (Open Access) Supporting Twice Exceptional Learners |
| Book: | COURSE DETAILS, REQUIRED READING |
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| Date: | Friday, 22 November 2024, 7:11 AM |
1. Course Focus and Objectives
Focus
The focus of this course is to provide a framework to identify and support twice-exceptional students. When we say "provide support" we are referring to the whole-child and the entire learning community.
The content is based on research and the collective experience of current and past specialists on the Twice-Exceptional Project from the Colorado Department of Education.
Besides the content and discussion boards, there are quizzes for each lesson. You must pass the quizzes with 100% of the points to be able to download the certificate for each part. The certification can be used for relicensing certification hours.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, educators will be able to:
● Establish a safe, inclusive, and respectful learning environment for a diverse population of students (Colorado Teacher Quality Standards [CTQS] II)
● Create an environment that facilitates learning for their students (CTQS III)
● Reflect on their practice (CTQS IV)
● Take responsibility for student academic growth (CTQS VI)
● Articulate and summarize the paradoxical characteristics and complex needs of twice-exceptional students including social-emotional needs.
2. Facilitated Option
Alternative Courses
The Office of Gifted Education, within Colorado's Exceptional Student Services Unit, also offers two facilitated sections of this course: Supporting Twice-Exceptional Learners Part 1 and Supporting Twice-Exceptional Learners Part 2. While the content is nearly the same, in these facilitated courses, participants interact on discussion boards and submit assignments for feedback and grades. Because of the additional workload, these courses offer more recertification hours and the opportunity for Adams State University (ASU) credit. Currently, successful completion of the Part 1 course earns the participant twenty-two (22) hours of CDE recertification hours, and successful completion of the Part 2 course earns the participant twenty-four (24) recertification hours, including the ten (10) special education relicensing hours required for renewing after 2027. If you choose to use the link enroll with ASU and pay their course fee, the facilitated Part 1 course is currently available for one (1) credit hour, and the facilitated Part 2 course is available for 1.5 credit hours. These options are only available for the facilitated courses - not for this on-demand course. The facilitated courses are for educators, school specialists (mental health, special education and gifted education specialists, etc.) and administrators who in Colorado schools and who work with students or support educators who work with students.For further information about these facilitated course options, see the Office of Gifted Education twice-exceptional professional development WEBPAGE.
3. Course Information
Asynchronous and On-Demand
This course is fully asynchronous, and you can complete it at your own pace. There are 8 lessons in total.
The content for each lesson is found by clicking on the book icon on the course's front page. 
If you have not taken a Moodle course before, you should read the Moodle logistics section above to understand how to fully negotiate the platform to ensure you access all the content.
You must complete all the reading and pass the quizzes at 100% (multiple tries allowed) to get your certificate. If you cannot download the certificate at the end of the course, please make sure all your boxes are checked complete, your quizzes are at 100% and that you have completed the anonymous evaluation. Your dashboard might not show 100% completion, but as long as all the boxes are marked complete next to a front section you have completed the course.
We suggest you create a plan for yourself about how you will finish the course. It might be to complete a lesson each week, or perhaps a lesson a day during a vacation might work better for you; this way, you could have the course finished in eight days with only a few hours of commitment each day. Whatever you decide, a plan will help you succeed in completing the course.
For technical issues with the course, you may use Moodle's messaging system or email
Email Michael Scott, scott_m@cde.state.co.us - You might also want to put sitesed@cde.state.co.us on your safe email list for messaging through the Moodle platform.
5. Next Steps
Learning research supports the need to construct knowledge, repeat to remember, and the importance of reflection and application of new learning. To help with this endeavor, there are two documents: the application journal and the student study. We encourage you to download these resources, fill them out as you go through the course, and keep them for later reference.