Instruction

Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction

Guide to Teaching Math to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

This guide lists specific steps you can take to provide mathematics instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities and complex access needs.

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Autism, Transition, Instruction

Person-Centered Planning

The importance and benefits of person-centered planning as a part of planning for a student's future.

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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction, Assistive Technology

Vertical Alignment

In this video, an educator reviews how she uses the TEKS Vertical Alignment documents.

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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion, Instruction

Instructional Support Planning Form

This form helps a team specify the student's learning objectives, describe the supports required for the student to participate in classroom activities, and indicate who is responsible for creating/curating those supports. This document aligns with the Rubric of Effective Practices for Students with

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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion, Instruction

Guide to Implementation of Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM)

This guide lists specific steps you can take to provide AIM to students with complex access needs.

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Autism, Behavior, Instruction

Direct Instruction

This course provides a comprehensive overview of Direct Instruction, a structured, evidence-based teaching method focused on explicit, systematic instruction to improve student outcomes. Educators will explore the core principles of this approach, including script-based lessons, clear modeling, and

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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction

Task Analysis Form

This form can be used to break down the steps of an activity and indicate the support the student required for each step.

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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction

Building an Authentic Academic Response for Students with Complex Access Needs

Learn to work with students with no authentic academic response, creating PLAAFPs, goals and implementing best practices for academic growth.

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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction

Hierarchy of Cueing and Prompting

This chart organizes the levels of support a student might need from least to most invasive.

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ARD/IEP Supports, Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Autism, Behavior, Evaluation, Instruction

Data Collection: Trial by Trial Recording

Trial-by-trial data collection is used often for academic tasks. Record data for each opportunity, or trial, the student is given. The data may be reported in trials or in percentages, depending on how the goal is written.

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