Webinar Description:
High-Leverage Practices are 22 essential special education techniques that all teachers of students with disabilities should master for use across a variety of classroom contexts (Council for Exceptional Children and CEEDAR). During this webinar, Laura Clarke will focus on using Explicit Instruction with students who have complex learning needs.
Explicit instruction is a research-based strategy that is systematic, direct, engaging, and success-oriented—and has been shown to promote achievement for ALL students in any grade level or content area, including foundational academic, behavioral, and social-emotional skills and activities of daily living.
In this presentation, we will explore the learning needs of students with autism, intellectual disabilities, and other complex disabilities and how they can be supported using the 16 principles of Explicit Instruction (Archer & Hughes, 2011). This webinar will include lots of examples, sample lesson plan templates, and other resources.
After attending this webinar, participants will:
Presenter Information:
Laura Clarke, Ed.D., is the Director of Special Education for Campbell County Schools in KY. She is the creator of Reading & Writing 4 All, a site for emerging readers, and has published in Teaching Exceptional Children, Beyond Behavior, Psychology in the Schools, Journal of Teacher Action Research, Teacher Educator Special Educator (TESE), and Preventing School Failure. Her research interests include supporting AAC and assistive technology use, the flipped classroom, universal design for learning, supporting students with disabilities in crises, and working with students with moderate to severe disabilities in areas such as incontinence and communication.
Registration may be cancelled up to 14 days prior to the event for a full refund. Cancellations received within 14 days of the event will not be refunded. No-show registrations will also not be refunded.