UNIT 5: Strengthening Skills with Effective Instruction

• Key Terms
• Lesson 1: Principles of Effective Instruction
  • Principals of Effective Instruction
• Lesson 2: Assessing Student Performance
  • What Is Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA)?
  • Important Features of CBA
  • What is Task Analysis?
  • How to Record Data on a CBA or Task Analysis
  • Graphing Data on Student Performance
  • What is Portfolio Assessment?
  • What is the Paraeducator's Role in CBA, Task Analysis, and Portfolio Assessment?
  • Application Exercise: Analyze One of Four Tasks
• Lesson 3: Assisting in the Delivery of Instruction
  • Working as a Member of the Instructional Tam
  • 5 Steps in Preparing and Presenting Information
  • Guidelines for Working with Students Who Have Different Characteristics
  • Application Exercise: How Would You Use the Five Steps for Preparing and Presenting Information?
• Lesson 4: Prompting Correct Responses
  • Affirming Correct Responses
  • Correcting Student Errors
  • Mini-Assignment A: Identify the Verbal Prompts that You Would Use
  • What Should I Do When I Run Into Problems
  • Group Exercise: Use of Physical Assistance to Prompt Responses
• Lesson 5: Monitoring Instruction
  • The Components of Monitoring Instruction
  • What Is "Checking for Independent Responses?"
  • Checking for Independent Responses of Individual Students
  • Four Steps in Checking for Independent Responses
  • Checking for Responses while Supervising Groups
  • Application Exercise: Check for Independent Responses