11/7/19 High Leverage Practices in Special Education: Overview

Speaker: Laura Smith

Target Audience:

Special Education Teachers, General Education Teachers,RTI Leaders/Teachers, Administrators

 

  

High Leverage Practices: 

1. Collaborate with professionals to increase student success.

2. Organize and facilitate effective meetings with professionals and families.

3. Collaborate with families to support student learning and secure needed services.

4. Use multiple sources of information to develop a comprehensive assessment information with takeholders to collaboratively design and implement educational programs.

6. Use student assessment data, analyze instructional practices, and make necessary adjustments that improve student outcomes.

7. Establish a consistent, organized, and respectful learning environment.

8. Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students' learning and behavior.

9. Teach social behaviors.

10. Conduct functional behavioral assessments to devlop individual student behavior support plans.

11. Identify and prioritize long and short term learning goals.

12. Systematically design instruction toward specific learning goals.

13. Adapt curriculum tasks and materials for specific learning goals.

14. Teach cognitive and metacognitive strategies to support learning and independence.

15. Provide scaffolded supports.

16. Use explicit instruction.

17. Use flexible grouping.

18. Use strategies to promote active student engagement.

19. Use assistive and instructional technologies.

20. Provide instensive instruction.

21. Teach students to maintain and generalize new learning across time and settings.

22. Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students' learning and behavior.

Description: 

The twenty-two high-leverage practices are designed to serve as a road map for guiding teacher preparation and professional learning. The high-leverage practices are organized around four areas of practice: Collaboration, Assessment, Social/Emotional/Behavioral and Instruction.  This session will provide participants the opportunity to explore each practice, view videos of implementation, and resources to further learning of evidence-based strategies for special education students.

 

  

EILA: Yes

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