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Embedding Learning opportunties

Engagement = Learning

Now that you have strategies in place for all children to actively participate and engage in routines, you can embed individual child goals. Consider how you can implement the following Division of Early Childhood (DEC) Recommended Practices key points:

Teach skills that are important to everyday activities.
Teach skills to a child in activities alongside all children.
Decide which routines are best suited to the goal.
Use natural and authentic materials, toys, props, etc within typically occurring activities.
Collaborate with all team members to plan when and how to teach and practice skills.
Arrange adults AND peers in a fashion to maximize impact.

two children playing sand table, one child is in a stand up walker

Practicing motor goals with peers in an inclusive classroom

Steps for embedding individual goals:

Decide which goal to embed.
- You might include family goals, IEP goals, skills from Early Childhood Indicators of Progress (ECIPs) or ongoing assessment data.
Determine when to teach and practice these skills.
Decide which materials, visuals, props, activities are best for teaching or prompting the skill.
Use ongoing data to monitor the child's progress in learning.
Add individual children to your teaming meeting and discuss the above points will all team members.

WHAT TO TEACH

As you think about individual children, consider what skills the child needs to work on. This may be social-emotional, self-help, cognitive, motor, etc. You may have a family goal or IEP goal. You might also use ongoing assessment data to choose which goals to work on. After each checkpoint, ask for a report showing how each child is doing so you can plan your instruction based on what the children in your class need. For example, if you find that only 2 children in your class still need practice with ABAB patterns, then you can embed that practice into routines for those 2 children while offering the rest of the class a new skill to work on.

when to teach and practice

Embedding the same skill into multiple routines provides children with the repetition they need to master a skill. An activity matrix is one way to organize your plan to embed individual goals into routines. How does your team plan to embed goals into routines?

Share Using Activity Matrix to ELO CC.mp4

H7_tips_elo.pdf

H6_elo_tips_evaluating.pdf

H9_Matrix_Examples.pdf

H10_Matrix_TeacherTips.pdf

Thank you National Center for Quality Teaching and Learning for sharing this video and additional resources on using an activity matrix.

promting resources

Providing Helping Prompts_Prompting Hierarchy

Prompting Procedures.pdf

Levels of Support.pdf

Prompting Strategies Overview

Levels of Support 2.pdf

Least to Most Help

Levels of Support 3.pdf

Levels of Support 4.pdf

Most to Least Help

Levels of Suport 5.pdf

Levels of Support 6.pdf

Precautions to Providing Full Assistance

Levels of Support 7.pdf

Importance of Providing Positive Reinforcement

Levels of Support 8.pdf

Video Examples of Prompting

Full Physical Assist CC.mp4

Example of Full Physical Assistance

Partial Physical Assist CC.mp4

Example of Partial Physical Assistance

Embedding speech, occupational therapy, and physical therapy into daily routines

H6a_IntegratingTherapyIntoClassrooms1.pdf

Webinar and Article:

As you work on embedding children's goals into daily classroom routines, you may find the "Integrating Therapy into the Classroom" article and the following webinar on embedding speech goals helpful to reflect on.

Embedding Speech Goals into Routines

Recorded January 2019

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