Break It Down: Turning Goals into Everyday Teaching Opportunities
Use these methods to break down a learning goal into smaller steps. Breaking down a goal into easier objectives helps a child to make steady progress in mastering a skill.
Young children vary in their skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and abilities. Effective teaching requires individualized teaching and chances to learn for all children to access, participate, and thrive in early learning settings. Individualizing for children who need more support helps ensure effective teaching for children with disabilities and other special needs across all the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains. Using children’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals is part of effective teaching, individualizing, and creating inclusive environments to support children’s positive outcomes.
Use these methods to break down a learning goal into smaller steps. Breaking down a goal into easier objectives helps a child to make steady progress in mastering a skill.
This in-service suite introduces the activity matrix as an effective tool for teachers to organize learning opportunities for children who need additional support during daily classroom activities and routines.
Discover how to use a teaching practice called the Teaching Loop to provide individualized instruction to children.
Watch this short video to find out about a family’s experience when they learn that their child has a special need. Reflect on ways to strengthen partnerships with families like this one.
Learn about the role of each attendee at a typical Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting.
Watch as a facilitator recaps an Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting highlights. The next step is to have all attendees sign the IEP document.
In this video clip, a family support specialist closes a Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting. She gives parents the chance to provide feedback and ask questions.
Learn how ongoing assessment can be a useful way to inform teaching practices. Explore how to use it to help children with disabilities reach their annual goals.
Learn why embedding instruction can provide more intensive instruction for children with disabilities.
Review the process of developing a support plan for children with disabilities. Explore timing, implementation, and support for teachers.