About the BEST Graduate Concentration
The Vermont Higher Education Collaborative offers the BEST Graduate Concentration to provide an empirically-based education for individuals and teams to meet the needs (and capitalize on the strengths!) of children with emotional and behavioral challenges and their families. Open to classroom teachers, special educators, school administrators, and other professionals and community members, the core of this program is a 3-course sequence covering (a) team and interagency collaboration, (b) overview and assessment of emotional and behavioral disorders, and (c) prevention and response strategies.
The courses are approved graduate courses in special education at the University of Vermont and, if accepted, credits can be applied toward a master's degree or certificate of advanced study at participating institutions. (Click here to learn more about taking a course or the full concentration.)
Click here to read an article from TASH Connections about the concentration
Welkowitz, J. & Hamilton, R. (2006, January/February) University of Vermont's graduate concentration in emotional and behavioral disabilities.
TASH Connections, pp. 29, 31. Reprinted with permission from the publisher.
Strengths of our program:
Multidisciplinary focus
- Faculty members represent diverse disciplines
- Multidisciplinary
curriculum
- Opportunities for coursework in related fields (i.e.,
special education, educational leadership, counseling, and social work)
Emphasis on applied learning - Provides training that can be
immediately applied in schools & classrooms
- Emphasizes systemic issues,
prevention, interventions, assessment, and positive behavioral supports and
responses
- Offers intensive on-site practicum activities and
assignments
Meeting the needs of full or part-time educators
- On-site practicum and supervision
- Use of Distance Learning
Technology
- Evening and weekend courses
If you are ready to register for a course or the whole program please click here for application instructions.
Last modified February 25 2008 06:11 AM
