Promoting Independence: It All Starts, Goes, and Ends with Love!
Promoting Independence: Playing Frogger
For classrooms where whole group instruction is the prefered mode of teaching, please mind the gap. The gap, the open space between the instructor and the learner is absolutely sacred. It is on this two way highway that information, ideas, and concepts are shared. Information is presented, questions are asked, …
Promoting Independence: Making Routines Routine
Promoting Independence: The 3 Point Prompt
For young learners who frequently struggle with noncompliance the road to independence can be a long one. But every journey begins with a first step. Every journey begins with a plan. The 3 point prompt is not going to be appropriate for every early learner, but for many it can provide …
Promoting Independence: The Prompt Hierarchy
Promoting Independence: 10 Mantras of the Special Educator!
Promoting Independence: Be the 1st Man!!!
Promoting Independence: Schedule This!
Just as is it essential to explicitly share behavioral expectations so a student knows how to do something, they must know what to do. While the agenda can be shared on a schedule, all too often we forget to give ownership of the …
Promoting Independence: Picture This!
Despite giving adequate processing time when expressing behavioral expectations or schedule changes, students may continue to struggle with going from hearing to doing. While the learner may hear the words you are saying they may not be visualizing them accurately and hence …