TASN-ATBS Archived Webinar: Explicit Instruction for Learners with Intellectual Disabilities: High Leverage Practices in Action

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The webinars are found under Webinars for Professional Development and are then listed by category and in alphabetical order. This webinar's category is Instructional Strategies.

Archived 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 archived webinar, Laura Clarke focuses 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, Laura explores 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 includes lots of examples, sample lesson plan templates, and other great resources.

Learner Objectives

After attending this webinar, participants will:

• Identify the 16 principles of Explicit Instruction and how to use them to instruct students with Intellectual Disabilities
• Implement Explicit Instruction principles to teach academic, behavioral, and social-emotional skills
• Identify visual and behavioral supports that can be used with Explicit Instruction to support students with ID

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.