Embedded Instruction Using DEC’s Recommended Practices in Inclusive Settings

1. Embedded InstructionUsing DEC’s Recommended Practices in Inclusive Settings Sarah A. Mulligan, M.Ed., CAE Executive Director Division for Early Childhood

2. What is DEC? The Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children

3. What is DEC? • Membership Organization • Birth through 8 years • Young children with disabilities and other special needs • Promotes policies and advances evidence-based practices

4. Today we will focus on…. • What is Embedded Instruction • How You Can Use Embedded Instruction in Inclusive Settings • How can DEC’s Recommended Practices be a resource to you?

5. A Quick Look at DEC’s Recommended Practices • 240 Practices • 5 Direct Service Strands • 2 Indirect Support Strands

6. Direct Service Strands • Assessment(46) John Neisworth and Stephen Bagnato • Child-Focused(27) Mark Wolery • Family-Based(17) Carl Dunst and Carol Trivette • Interdisciplinary Models(19) Robin McWilliam • Technology Applications(22) Kathleen Stremel

7. Indirect Support Strands • Policies, Procedures & Systems Change (43) Gloria Harbin and Christine Salisbury • Personnel Preparation(27) Patricia Miller and Vicki Stayton

8. Why are Recommended Practices Important to You? • Represents collective wisdom • Identifies what practices work • Provides a framework to define quality • Supports positive outcomes • Applies to all settings

9. Quality Practices = Quality Service = Better Outcomes

10. Recommended Practices Quality Practices for All Children Program

11. Child-Focused Practices: Take Home Messages • Adults design environments to promote children’s safety, active engagement, learning, participation, and membership. • Adults use ongoing data to individualize and adapt practices to meet each child’s changing needs. • Adults use systematic procedures within and across environments, activities, and routines to promote children’s learning and participation.

12. Child-Focused Practices: Take Home Messages • Adults design environments to promote children’s safety, active engagement, learning, participation, and membership. • Adults use ongoing data to individualize and adapt practices to meet each child’s changing needs. • Adultsuse systematic procedures within and across environments, activities, and routines to promote children’s learning and participation.

13. Instruction that is deliberately inserted into the regular activities or routines of a child’s day Embedded Instruction

14. Instruction that is deliberately inserted into the regular activities or routines of a child’s day Embedded Instruction

15. Instruction that is deliberately inserted into the regular activities or routines of a child’s day Embedded Instruction

16. Know what the child needs to learn Know the daily schedule well enough to identify key places for instruction Teach the skill in a group setting, daily activity, or routine Fine-tune the experience Four Key Elements

20. Did the child get a key learning experience? Did the other children benefit? Did the other children know what you were doing? Do you know what to do differently next time? Measures of Success

21. Embedded Instruction Video Clip

22. Using the Child-Focused Practices handout, find 5 practices that would support embedded instruction Using DEC’s Recommended Practices C25 C21 C22 C23 C24

23. C25 Specialized procedures are embedded and distributed within and across routines

24. C21 Consequences for children’s behavior are structured to increase the complexity and duration of children’s play, engagement, appropriate behavior, and learning by using differential reinforcement, response shaping, high probability procedures, and correspondence training.

25. C23 Peer mediated strategies are used to promote social and communicative behavior.

26. Individual Child Activity Matrix

27. Individual Child Activity Matrix

28. What’s Next? • Plan with the whole group in mind • Play with the Individual Child Activity Matrix • Create your own hidden agenda

29. Stay in Touch! www.dec-sped.org Sarah A. Mulligan sarah.mulligan@dec-sped.org

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