Special Education Administration Training Project Program Description.

Overview & Synopsis

The University of Minnesota's Special Education Administration Training Program (SEATP) is a competency-based education program, developed from a systems orientation model, and used for continuing education of professional administrators. The report presents an overview of the SEATP program under the following topical areas: (1) background information, including a brief discussion of the position of special education directors, their educational needs (primarily those needs documented in Minnesota), and the concept of competency-based training; (2) a description of SEATP in operation, including salient features of the program and the sequence of activities which the participating director of special education would complete; (3) presentation of a general model for development of this or similar preservice or continuing education programs, a discussion of the purpose and applications of each component, and examples of procedures, measurement, tools, etc. from SEATP to resolve those issues; (4) discussion of competency-based education issues as they concern the Special Education Administration Training Program. (MW)