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Intense Intervention Licensure Program

Add Intense Intervention to your Indiana Teaching License!

The Intense Intervention Licensure Program is a series of three graduate-level classes for teachers to add Exceptional Children: Intense Intervention (P-12) certification to their Indiana license. This online program is flexibly-designed to fit around your full-time teaching schedule.

As a licensed intense intervention teacher, you will be more hirable, prepared and confident as you come alongside students with learning challenges to help them succeed. Our schools need you!

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Ask us how you could qualify to have your program tuition and textbooks covered!

Classes are flexible! 

The structure of the program is uniquely flexible. Each class is self-paced over 4 months. You determine the start date for your classes by enrolling any day of the year. 

You can work on a class any time of the day and never have to be online at a specific time. Classes do require in-person classroom observations and experiences completed in your community. There is no student teaching requirement.

Licensure Courses
SED 575 Low-Incidence Disabilities-Instruction and Learning (3 credits)

This course is designed for candidates to operationalize knowledge of the curriculum principles to design systematic instruction for individuals with intense disabilities. The focus is on research-based strategies for promoting academic and social-emotional success. Historical and legal aspects will inform instruction to meet students’ current learning needs as well as preparation for adulthood. Candidates will relate characteristics and etiological backgrounds of preschool children through adolescence with intense disabilities to assess and design individualized and effective instruction. The roles and types of technologies in the teaching and learning process will be included. This course includes a field experience teaching students with intense disabilities.

Field Experience 25 hours observation over minimum of 4 weeks
Textbooks
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Tammy Mahon

  • EdD, Special Education, Ball State University (2006)
  • MA, Special Education, Ball State University (2001)
  • BA, Elementary Education, Anderson University (1993)

SED 580 Low-Incidence Disabilities-Independence and Self-determination (3 credits)

This course provides candidates with the skills to evaluate and design effective individualized programs based upon instructional needs related to independence and self-determination for students with intense disabilities. An informed decision-making process based upon student, family, and diagnostic procedures are the focus. Theories and principles related to the skills for independence and self-determination are applied to design individualized programs to address daily living, job and community, and self-management of behaviors for students. This course includes a field experience teaching students with intense disabilities.

Field Experience 25 hours observation over minimum of 4 weeks
Textbooks
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Tammy Mahon

  • EdD, Special Education, Ball State University (2006)
  • MA, Special Education, Ball State University (2001)
  • BA, Elementary Education, Anderson University (1993)

SED 590 Low-Incidence Disabilities-Collaboration and Individualized Programs (3 credits)

The course focuses on the application of effective strategies of communication and collaboration for promoting the success of children and adolescents with intense disabilities. The consultative and collaborative skills and roles of special education teachers will be applied to advance the learning experiences and outcomes for students. Content includes current issues and trends related to various programs, and services. Culturally competent services, parent involvement, and the role of students with intense disabilities are addressed. This course includes a field experience teaching students with intense disabilities.

Field Experience 25 hours observation over minimum of 4 weeks
Textbooks
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Lisa Graham

  • EdD, Educational Leadership, Oakland City University (in progress)
  • MA, Special Education, Ball State University (1997)
  • BA, Special Education, IUPUI (1989)

Licensure Tests

Content Area Assessment:  Subject assessments measure your content knowledge of the subject(s) you will teach.  To add the intense intervention content area to a teaching license, you must take and pass the following test after you complete your courses:

           Exceptional Needs: Intense Intervention, Special Education Severe to Profound (test code 5547)

Praxis Testing Website

You are not alone in this process. We are here to help you! Please contact us if you have questions: 

Joy Elzinga, Director of Teacher Licensure, joy_elzinga@taylor.edu, 765-998-5286
Mrs. April Dickey, Director of Transition to Teaching/Online Licensure Programs, april_dickey@taylor.edu 765-998-5145

Admissions

Applications are accepted year-round for Taylor University’s online Intense Intervention Licensure program. To apply, please submit the following:

License and transcripts can be emailed to lykline@tayloru.edu or mailed to:

Taylor University, Education Department
ATTN: Director, Transition to Teaching/Online Licensure Programs
1846 Main Street
Upland, IN 46989

*Note: To be admitted, you must already possess a valid Indiana license in Exceptional Children: Mild Intervention.

Tuition

Taylor’s Intense Intervention program saves you time and money by offering the certification as a 9 credit hour licensure add-on. Our focused programming decreases the cost and time to completion, so you can do what you want to do faster—help students! 

Tuition is paid one class at a time as you proceed through the program. It is due when you enroll in a course—a date you select. Once paid, you can start the course the next business day. You don’t have to wait for a semester or scheduled date to get started!  

  • One-time enrollment fee: $100 (Pay by credit card or mail to the address provided above.)
  • Credit hour rate: $450 per credit hour
  • A three credit hour course: $1,350
  • Intense Intervention program total: $4,050 (9 credit hours)

Financial aid is not available for the Intense Intervention Licensure program.

Let’s chat about your future!

Meet Lyn. She can help you add Intense Intervention to your teaching license.

Lyn Kline

Graduate Enrollment Counselor

  • MA, Ball State University
  • BS, Huntington University
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