BSc in Education - Special Education in Waco United States | Baylor University

The Special Education program equips future educators to work with students who have diverse learning needs, spanning early childhood to 12th grade. Field placements emphasize working with learners across the disability spectrum, from mild to significant challenges. This major provides two undergraduate certification pathways. The All-Level Special Education track focuses exclusively on teaching students with exceptional needs across all grade levels. Alternatively, the Special Education Supplemental option trains educators to teach general education for early childhood through 6th grade while also preparing them to support students with special needs who are primarily included in general education classrooms.

Hands-on field experience forms the core of the Special Education curriculum. Starting sophomore spring, teacher candidates engage in progressively intensive classroom practice, from small group instruction to one-on-one tutoring with students exhibiting varying degrees of learning challenges. The culminating experience involves a full-time placement in a Waco-area school during the senior year, where candidates partner with mentor teachers in special education settings. Throughout this placement, students gradually assume greater responsibility for lesson design and instruction. The final five weeks of each semester feature independent teaching under supervision, serving as the program's capstone evaluation period.