Outline of Content

Introduction

Assessment Task #1: Meeting the Needs of All Students

Unit 1: Effective Planning for Instruction

  • Identify the relationship between curriculum, assessment and instruction.
  • Identify and understand the purpose of the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and the Access Points for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
  • Identify elements of an effective planning process that is responsive to the needs of all students.
  • Identify core principles of Florida’s Multi-Tiered System of Support and Response to Intervention (RtI).

Sections

  1. Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment
  2. Florida's Standards
  3. Elements of Effective Instructional Planning
  4. A Planning Model
  5. Florida's Multi-Tiered System of Support

Assessment Task #2a: Check Your Understanding Quiz
Assessment Task #2b: Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction

Unit 2: Differentiating Instruction

  • Identify the guidelines, classroom elements, and student characteristics that are the basis for differentiation of instruction to improve student learning.
  • Acknowledge the potential barriers to effective differentiation.
  • Determine ways to evaluate whether or not differentiation is improving student learning.

Sections

  1. The Basics of Differentiated Instruction
  2. Overcoming Barriers to a Differentiated Classroom
  3. Is My Differentiated Classroom Helping Students Learn?

Assessment Task #3: The Basics of Differentiation

Unit 3: Strategies to Support Differentiated Instruction

  • Review the guidelines of differentiation.
  • Describe design principles that make instruction more explicit in a differentiated environment. 
  • Identify teacher delivery methods that teachers can use to make instruction more intensive.
  • Introduce a variety of teaching tools that can be used to support learning in a differentiated environment and assist with making instruction more explicit or more intensive.

Sections

  1. Differentiated Instruction
  2. Explicit Instruction
  3. Teacher Delivery Methods to Increase Intensity
  4. Instructional Tools
  5. Behavior Management
  6. Functional and Independent Living Skills

Assessment Task #4: Explicit Instruction
Assessment Task #5: Instructional Tools

Unit 4: Intensive Intervention for Reading and Writing

  • Examine why students experience reading difficulties and determine alterable and relevant causes as related to instruction.
  • Review current research in reading.
  • Identify Florida’s reading initiatives.
  • Review the basics of reading instruction.
  • Identify characteristics of explicit instruction including instructional design principles and teacher delivery methods to increase the intensity of instruction.
  • Explore the writing process and the text structures used when writing.
  • Compare and contrast the skills of efficient writers and naïve writers.
  • Examine effective instructional practices and assessment procedures for writing.

Sections

  1. Reading Difficulties
  2. What is the Best Way to Teach Reading
  3. Florida's Reading Initiatives
  4. Reading Assessment
  5. Basics of Reading Instruction
  6. Explicit Reading Instruction: Instructional Design Principles
  7. Increasing the Intensity of Instruction
  8. Instructional Tools
  9. The Writing Process
  10. Teaching and Assessing the Writing Skills of Diverse Learners.

Assessment Task #6: Check Your Understanding Quiz
Assessment Task #7: Evaluating and Improving Writing

Unit 5: Intensive Intervention in Mathematics

  • Identify types of mathematical difficulties.
  • Explore effective instructional approaches to address mathematical difficulties.

Sections

  1. Math Principles, Standards and Important Topics
  2. Math Difficulties
  3. Identifying Math Difficulties
  4. Math Instruction

Assessment Task #8: Math Difficulties and Interventions

Unit 6: Collaboration for Improving Instruction

  • Identify the collaborating partners and to examine their roles.
  • Examine research based practices that enhance collaboration.
  • Reflect on improving collaboration between the partners.

Sections

  1. Collaboration for Improving Practice
  2. Educators Working Together
  3. Working with a Paraprofessional
  4. Home and School

Assessment Task #9: Collaboration