Special Education Welcome to Special Education!  At HPSH we boast many opportunities for students requiring individualized service while allowing them full access to general education resources. Special Education features include: • Resource setting for students with Learning Disabilities and Emotional/Behavior Disorders • Mild/Moderate/Severe Mental Impairment services in resource setting • Deaf/Hard of Hearing, self-contained classes and resource room with a range of support services including interpreters, note takers, audio logical monitoring and evaluation • Speech and Language services • Program for Social Development: self-contained programming for students with Emotional/ Behavioral Disorders (special placement made by district administration)  Itinerant services include: • Physical Therapy • Physically Impaired • Developmentally Adapted Physical Education • Visually Impaired • Orientation and Mobility • Other Health Impaired and Traumatic Brain Injury • Nursing services • Work Experience for learners to have access to community-based training and experiences through STEPS program • Social Work • Curb to curb bussing as determined by IEP Students receiving special education services should register for classes with their case managers.   Special Education Courses Literature, Reading & Writing Grades 9 – 12    Prerequisite: None Reading, written language and speaking skills are the focus of this course for students who have an IEP in reading and written language.  Students will be introduced to a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, at their independent and instructional levels, as well as basic reading and writing strategies.  They will prepare for the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments in reading and written language.   A400001 Reading for Standards Grades 9 – 12    Prerequisite: None This is a reading and writing course is also known as Read 180.  Students rotate from computer generated lessons to independent reading to small group instruction on specific reading and writing skills.  This yearlong class is for students who need skill development to pass the Basic Skills Tests.   Consumer Math Grades 9 – 12    Prerequisite: None This course will develop the basic math skills necessary for successful daily living.  Students will learn how to calculate home improvements, sports math, chance games, recipes, and purchasing and maintaining car payments.  Students will also plan for travel budgets, rent, mortgages, percents, interests, insurance, banking and investing.  Daily and weekly assignments will be given in addition to students designing their own budget plan for independent living.   Essential Math Grades 9 – 12    Prerequisite: None This course is designed to allow students the opportunity to improve their math skills.  Course study includes mathematical reasoning, number sense,   computation and operations, patterns, functions and algebra; data analysis, statistics and probability; spatial sense and concrete measurement.  Students will be placed in classes based on ability level.   A404201 Human Growth & Development Grades 9 – 12    Prerequisite: None Students will develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to make health-promoting decisions. The course will teach health and wellness, responsible decision-making, physical fitness, mental/emotional health, self-esteem, sexuality and reproduction, safety and emergency care. A404231 Physical Education/DAPE Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None Class work on individual, leisure, and team sport skills and activities.    A405601 Study Skills for Learning Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course emphasizes learning strategies such as: memorization, note-taking, test-taking, studying for tests and research skills. Students will learn how to apply these strategies to class work. Opportunity for individualized computer-based tutorial sessions designed to increase core content knowledge will be provided.   A400421 Self-Directed Skills Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This class will assist students to learn skills in self-advocacy, organization, coping with stress/anxiety, and social interaction. Students will apply these skills in an academic environment. Opportunity for individualized computer-based tutorial sessions designed to increase core content knowledge will be provided.   A400451 Career Seminar Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None The student will demonstrate the ability to compose/complete various types of business letters, resumes, employment applications, and technical reports while investigating careers and learning the job application process. In addition, students will be developing a personal organization system in which to safely store personal documents and business correspondence.   A402051 US History Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course will examine the historical foundations for American society from its first inhabitants to the present. Emphasis is placed with sociological, political, economic, technological and cultural development of this nation. Students will examine how the influences of diverse ideas or beliefs affect historical events.   A402101 Human Geography Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course will focus on regions of the world. Students will apply geographic concepts such as population, agriculture, natural resource allocation and management industry, political geography, cultural geography, and urbanization to their lives, and examine the impact of the physical environment on people and cultures.   A402121 Current Events Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None Using a variety of news and information sources, students will access information about local, state, national, and world events. Newspapers and other news sources will be utilized.  Students will be expected to integrate this information into their existing schema of important events, locales around the world, knowledge of people and cultures, dates/timelines of major events, etc. Finally students will be asked to formulate ideas and opinions about why the events they study have occurred or predict future outcomes based on current events.   A402151 US Citizenship Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course is designed to introduce students to US Government, constitutional law, and the rights/ responsibilities of functioning, contributing citizens. This course involves the story of the US constitution and its amendments, the structure of the government and the means by which citizens interact with the government, as well as rights that different citizens have worked to attain throughout different periods in this country’s history. Citizen involvement in the government processes and policies will also be examined.   A502501 Life Science Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course will develop an understanding of the interdependence among living things by studying cell structures and functions, cellular process, genetics, classification and diversity,plant/animal life and the body. A402521 Earth & Space Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None In this course, students will investigate the nature of the universe, as well as prevalent local geological phenomena and current discoveries. Some math will be required but taught as needed. Reading English language nonfiction, viewing and listening will also be an integral part of this course.   A402551 Life Applications Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course provides students with knowledge, experience, and hands-on skills training in a variety of real world self-determination/self-advocacy applications. All course activities will be authentic, directly supervised and modified or adapted according to individual student need.   A404221 Health 2 Parenting Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course will develop a basic knowledge of the skills and responsibilities related to child development and parenting. Students will learn about pregnancy, birth, child development (birth-6 yrs), personal readiness, parenting decisions, teenage parenting, and the nurturing of children. Students will be responsible for the development and implementation of an instructional child care program activity, a multi-parenting responsibility (24/7), and two parent interviews.   American Sign Language Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course will develop basic skills in ASL with an emphasis on vocabulary, communication, expressive and receptive skills and deaf culture awareness.  Students will learn the history of sign language and fingerspelling, terminology, hand shapes, plurals, tenses, facial expression, body language, spatial relationships and background.  There will be daily/weekly assignments, two performances of a song, poem or story (solo and in group), proof of attendance at a deaf cultural event, and a 24 hour deaf experience.   American Sign Language Theatre Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None Students will further develop their skills in ASL grammar, vocabulary, fluency, clarity and expression.  This course includes a review of basic ASL skills, deaf culture and history, continued development of accurate hand shapes, speed, motion of signs, directional signs, grammatical forms, idioms and classifiers.  Students will be responsible for daily/weekly assignments, interview with a deaf/hard of hearing person, a 48 hour deaf experience and participate in three performances of a song/poem/story during our annual ASL Talent Show!   A407101 Transition Course Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This course is designed to prepare students to live on their own.  Topics include renting and furnishing a home, managing money, budgets, credit, and making wise consumer decisions.     A407301 Transition to Independence Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None Students will refine skills in all five transition areas.  Students will develop the communication skills necessary to function successfully in the work world and the community.  Topics include: job procurement/retention skills, post-secondary options, career goals, professionalism, communication etiquette, interpreters, interviewing techniques and ADA rights and responsibilities.     Community Participation for Social Development Grades 9 – 12   Prerequisite: None This is a modified standards course for special education students and will be graded on a Pass Individual level. This course provides students with knowledge, hands-on skills training, and the opportunity to make informed decisions about a variety of recreation and leisure activities.  This course will also require students to fill out job related documents.  All course experiences will be authentic, directly supervised, and modified or adapted according to individual student needs.  Course may be repeated as needed for credit. Teachers Anderson, Kristi Broslma, Brian Dandapani, Samanta Ebersole, Carol Halgerson, Anne Heille, Allison Hildreth, Terry Hill, Anne Johnson, Donna Koch, Suzan Korf, Connie Kulhanek, Margaret Martland, Susan Matzuak, Melissa McCarty, Diane Munkwitz, James Salava, Kristin Sharma Kharengra, Anupma Volkert, Victoria Wilmes, Susan