特殊教育硕士和轻度/中等教育专家资格证书计划旨在为实习生准备在各种多元文化的城市学校从事特殊教育职业。该计划提供两种途径。一个给已经拥有教学证书的候选人，另一个给那些刚接触该行业的人。这两种方案的途径都包括在湾区学校担任带薪实习生。该程序还可以包括双语授权。指导和任务与工作要求保持一致，将理论和研究与实践联系起来。高素质的教师在与多种残障学生合作的多元，多元文化的城市学校中拥有丰富的经验。学生是个性化小班授课的紧密成员。在实习和课堂上，学生将得到广泛的监督和指导，为实习生提供满足工作，计划和州要求的支持。
The Special Education Master's and Mild Moderate Education Specialist Credential Program is designed to prepare interns for special education careers in diverse, multicultural, urban schools. The Special Education master's program culminates in a Master of Arts in Special Education with Mild/Moderate Education Specialist Preliminary Credential. Students attend an intensive summer program, from the end of May through mid-July, to prepare for their first teaching assignments. Students attend class in addition to working full-time as a paid special education intern teacher.<br><br>Student will be able to design and deliver structured asset-based lessons using the core components of Explicit Instruction (Introduction, Modeling, Guided Practice, Independent Practice and Closure) and utilize Universal Design for Learning in order to engage all students, represent content in accessible forms, and allow students to express mastery in individual ways.<br><br>Student will be able to utilize instructional practices emphasizing culturally responsive teaching methods in order to provide meaningful access to curriculum for learners from diverse backgrounds, valuing prior knowledge, building academic language, developing higher order thinking skills and addressing the achievement gap of diverse and marginalized learners.