1. Supporting Learners Across Settings
Sara Collings and Bridget Fleming

2. RELAX! Let’s get started!

3. Break the ICE!

4. Who do we work with? Mild-Moderate Disabilities - High Incidence
Moderate-Severe Disabilities- Low Incidence
Inclusion classrooms or Special Education classrooms?
Great resource!
LD Online
No two students with disabilities are the same,
but provides some great general disability information.

5. Types of support we provide students are?
A) Academic
B) Social
C) Behavioral
D) hold them up so they don’t fall over…
E) Academic, social, behavioral

6. Inclusion Inclusion is?
A) a classroom which consists of both students with and without disabilities.
B) A magical place where all your dreams come true!
C) a separate classroom where academic are taught.

7. Prompts - valuable teaching tool, use only
Prompts  - valuable teaching tool, use only when necessary, and fade-fade-fade!!!
Physical
Light
Full
Gesture
Verbal
Full verbal
Partial verbal
Text

8. What is the LEAST intrusive type of prompt?
A) full verbal
B) partial verbal
C) light physical
D) full physical
E) gestural
F) textual
G) I am super awesome so I can fade any prompt!

9. What is the MOST DIFFICULT prompt to fade?
A) full verbal
B) partial verbal
C) light physical
D) full physical
E) gestural
F) textual
G) I am super awesome so I can fade any prompt!

10. Prompting Hierarchies
Least to Most
Most to least

11. Independence is? A super cool thing we celebrate on July 4th!
When a student completes a skill with 0 prompts.
When a skill is complete with minimal prompting.
When a peer completes a task for a friend.

12. POP QUIZ! I hope you studied ;)

13. Classroom Strategies “Help” all students in the inclusion classroom
Provide choices
Promote/prompt students to respond to the “regular” education teacher
Sit in a chair next to the student(s), instead of standing and towering above them!
Minimize your reaction to “inappropriate” behaviors

14. Video Break !! YouTube - Co Teaching Strategies Let’s share!
What works for you?
How do you approach the classroom environment?

15. Supporting Social Skills
Practice, practice, practice
MODEL, MODEL, MODEL! And video modeling 
Using textual prompts
Don’t allow for students to make fun of one another about their disabilities (this goes both ways!)
NO HOVERING!!! Promote Independence!!
Seek out positive role models

16. Supporting Academic Learning
Direct Instruction & The Learning Center:
- Review previous days work/ class work
Present new concept/skill
Guided student practice
Provides structured learning environment
Premack principle
I do it, We do it, You do it
Errorless teaching
Pre-teaching difficult tasks
Keep the pace- don’t go slow, but ask the right questions!
Review concepts frequently!!
Premack principle

17. A quick word about Learning Centers…
Three questions to keep in mind:
Where are we going?
Who needs to practice what?
What kinds of activities will allow my students to meaningfully practice/apply information learned?
Oh yeah and don’t forget!!!
IEP goals w/ curriculum demands!!

18. Behavioral Support ROUTINES - predictable & structured is good!
CONSISTENCY!
Minimizing interruption in the classroom.
Keep the classroom safe!!
Stay tuned for part B!!

19. Accommodations vs. Modifications?
(learning standards unchanged)
Instructional
Materials
Grouping
Classroom Management
Modifications
(content & performance expectations changed)
Typically made for students who have severe behavioral and/or intellectual disabilities that gen. ed curriculum expectations are inappropriate
Spiraled curriculum
Instructional modifications:
Teach less content
Teach different content

20. Let’s take a look at some examples…
Accomodations
Plep A: What does that mean?
Student examples
Modifications
Instructional Modification, middle school science example
Elementary example?
High school example

21. FINAL EXAM!

22. A fun note to end on…
Inclusion Rocks!!