Systematic Instruction for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Belva C. Collins

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781681254388
• eBook ISBN: 9781681254395
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

To improve outcomes for students with moderate and severe disabilities, K–12 educators need to understand the why and how of good instructional practices. They’ll find comprehensive guidance in the second edition of this bestselling text on systematic instruction, a highly effective teaching approach rooted in applied behavior analysis (ABA).

 

Fully revised and updated with timely topics and new sample lesson plans, this reader-friendly textbook prepares teachers to use dynamic, adaptable systematic instruction strategies to teach core content that is age-appropriate, meaningful, and relevant to students’ lives. Educators will discover evidence-based methods that help them with every step of systematic instruction, from collecting accurate screening and baseline data to supporting students as they generalize new skills to other settings. And faculty members will get a complete package of online instructor materials they can use in their courses, including test banks, PowerPoint slides, flowcharts for instructional procedures, and blank data sheets.

 

Written by a seasoned educator with decades of experience training a multitude of teachers, this is the accessible, up-to-date text today’s teachers need to succeed in inclusive classrooms and improve outcomes for students with moderate and severe disabilities.

 

WHAT’S NEW

• Revised and updated chapters throughout, with a wealth of practical strategies
• A full package of online faculty materials
• 14 new sample lesson plans, including learning objectives, instructional contexts, materials needed, teaching procedures, data-collection guidelines, maintenance and generalization strategies, and lesson extensions and variations
• Insightful commentary from special educators in each chapter
• More on working with parents and caregivers
• Guidance in each chapter about adapting systematic instruction methods for distance learning
• New chapter on making instructional decisions and exercising leadership
• Explicit guidance on combining functional core content with standards-based instruction
• More on inclusion and culturally responsive practices
• Up-to-date research on systematic instruction

 

SELECTED TOPICS COVERED: developing data sheets · collecting baseline data · designing effective instructional programs · using response prompting strategies · using technology to enhance instruction · applying ABA principles · increasing the efficiency of instruction · facilitating maintenance and generalization · exercising educational leadership

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Online Companion Materials
• About the Author
• Foreword   Erik W. Carter, Ph.D.
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I Setting the Context for Systematic Instruction
• Chapter 1 Using Systematic Instruction When Teaching Standards in Inclusive Classrooms
• Chapter 2 Using Technology With Systematic Instruction
• Chapter 3 Involving Others in Implementing Systematic Instruction
• Chapter 4 Developing Data Sheets and Collecting Baseline Data
• Chapter 5 Using Effective Practices to Teach Learners With Moderate and Severe Disabilities
• Section II   Delivering Systematic Instruction
• Chapter 6 Applying the Principles of ABA to Teach Learners With Moderate and Severe Disabilities
• Chapter 7 Using Response-Prompting Strategies: Graduated Guidance, Most-to-Least Prompting, and System of Least Prompts
• Chapter 8 Using Response-Prompting Strategies: Time-Delay and Simultaneous-Prompting Procedures
• Chapter 9 Increasing the Efficiency of Instruction
• Chapter 10  Facilitating Maintenance and Generalization
• Chapter 11  Making Instructional Decisions and Exercising Leadership
• Appendix Flowchart for Designing Instructional Programs Using Response-Prompting Procedures
• Appendix A Sample Instructional Programs Using Systematic Instruction
• Appendix B Glossary
• Index