Per WGU's published description, D756 prepares special education teachers to collaborate effectively with parents, school staff, and other professionals to plan programs and access services for students with exceptionalities, applying culturally responsive communication strategies within the school, educational settings, and the community. The course introduces ways to enhance parental involvement and family engagement while teaching families and students advocacy throughout the IEP and transition planning processes. The deliverable the description names is concrete: the learner creates an IEP and then engages in a simulated IEP annual review, practicing the communication and collaboration skills key to the program's development and implementation.
One honest note from the same description: candidates engage in three hours of preclinical experiences that include a simulated collaborative experience in which the learned skills are applied. The simulation lives inside the course, and any live participation requirement is confirmed with you at intake; the written, scored academic work is ours, and live clinical and student-teaching courses always stay with you. Placement is term 6 on all four special education bachelor's tables, the dual licensure track, the mild to moderate track, and both educational studies variants, where D756 shares the term with the D668, D669, and D670 elementary literacy block. The M.A. Teaching, Special Education carries the same-named graduate twin D764 (EDUC 5325, 2 CUs) at term 3, and the bachelor's D756 is the 3-CU version, so match the code in your portal. Message us the code and where you stand, and we quote a flat price in writing.