Title: Identifying
1Identifying Developing Alternative Effective
Instructional Interventions Strategies
- Leia Blevins, M.Ed.
- Project Manager
- James Fox, Ph.D.
- Project Director
- ETSU Make a Difference Project
2Alternative Teaching Intervention Strategies
- Why Alternative?
- Current teaching not working or not working
enough - Student learning not occurring and/or behavior
problems during instruction - identify reasons for student learning problems
- plan implement alternative teaching
3Alternative Strategiescontd.
- Must examine our teaching practices
- Ineffective or inappropriate teaching
- Unintentional
- Compounded by inappropriate or unproductive
student learning behaviors - Make a Difference data other research data
- FBA recommendations
- between 33 60 of recommendations
4Direct Instruction
- Directly teaching specific skills
- using evidenced-based teaching procedures
strategies based on research - Using direct measures of skills to make
instructional decisions
5Effective Instructional Cycle Major Steps
- Modeling
- Guided Practice
- Independent Practice
- Feedback
6MODELING
- Showing/Telling child correct response
- Provides correct response before errors occur
- Examples
- This is a Red Car (Saying showing/pointing)
- Dennis, watch me, Im going to ask Tommy to play
ball Tommy, I play ball?
7GUIDED PRACTICE
- Opportunity for child to perform behavior with
assistance from teacher - Assistance
- Prompting
- Added teacher behavior or stimulus to jump
start correct response or appropriate behavior - Given before or during opportunity for desired
behavior - Purposes
- Enable child to get it right
- Prevent incorrect or inappropriate behavior from
happening - The behavior that happened last in that situation
is likely to be repeated again the next time
8GUIDED PRACTICE contd.
- Types of assistance or prompting
- Verbal, Physical, both
- Stimulus prompts
- Changing the cue or stimulus the child is given
to increase ability to respond correctly - Response prompts
- Adding something after the cue but before or
during behavior
9PROMPTING EXAMPLES
- Stimulus Prompts
- Show me B
- Choices on cards
- A B
- Go ask someone to play
- Teacher stands next to or points at a specific
peer who is likely to respond positively
- Response Prompts
- Verbal Directions
- When we sit in circle we keep our hands to
ourselves - Modeling
- Physical Guidance
- Teacher tells children to make transition
- Places her hand on Tommys back gives gentle
push toward next center
10INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
- Same cue or opportunity to respond
- No prompting
- Evaluate whether or not child has learned correct
response or behavior - Without assistance
- Need clear statement of what correct or
appropriate behavior is - Simple evaluation method
- Repetition of Correct Behavior in that situation
11FEEDBACK
- What teacher or situation supplies that lets
child know - Whether he/she is correct
- What to do if incorrect or inappropriate behavior
occurs - Occurs relatively quickly after child behavior
during independent practice - Correct Acknowledgement, praise, move on to
next step - Incorrect Correct Error, Repeat Instructional
Cycle
12FEEDBACK EXAMPLES
- After Correct or Appropriate behavior
- Praise, confirmation of correct response
- Good job Yes, that is the blue car!
- Release from task opportunity to engage in more
preferred activity - OK, you cleaned up your table, now you can go to
the Housekeeping Center
- After Error or Inappropriate Behavior
- Error correction
- This is the blue car (teacher points to blue
car) - You put the papers in the trash but you need to
put the crayons in the box - Mild negative
- No, this is the blue car (teacher points to blue
car) - No, youre not finished until you put the
crayons in the box
13Curriculum-Based Assessment
- Testing what is taught
- Steps
- Identify curriculum samples
- samples from different levels of difficulty
- Collect student performance samples
- Score samples
- Chart analyze performance data
- Decide on instruction
- Repeat assessment analysis
14Collect Student Performance Samples
- Short samples of performance in skill
- performance (Production) vs selection
- reading short passages
- writing spelling words dictated by teacher/aide
- sentences written to story-starter
- writing answers to math problems
- Multiple samples at ea. difficulty level
- Timed (2 - 3 min. each)
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16See SaySound Symbols ing words
Correct Incorrect 1st try 2nd try
Directions Say each word
17See WriteAdverbs
Directions After each sentence, write what the
underlined adverb tells Where? When? How? To
what extent
18See to WriteDecimals Add Money
Correct Incorrect 1st try 2nd try
Directions Add and write answers to each example
19Performance Charting Analysis
- How well does student perform skills?
- Number correct vs incorrect
- percentage correct
- Rate of correct errors per amount of time
- Evaluation
- Expert opinion
- 90 mastery
- 70 - 90 instructional
- lt 70 frustration
- Peer comparison
- previous (baseline) performance
20Correct
Incorrect
21Basic Decision Rules
- 3 days of little or no growth (lt 25 increase)
- Slice back to easier skill
- Teach tool skills - give tool skill practice
- Change learning channel
- (See-Write to See-Say)
- Change task (skill sheet format)
- Include performance incentive
- Instruct to errors
- Student is at Aim for 2 out of 3 trials
- Move to more difficult task
- Aim specific level of instructional objective
22Error Analysis
- What kinds of Errors does student make?
- Classify errors
- categorization by types
- many ways of categorizing errors
- Hypothesize "cause of error
23Error Category Examples
- Oral Reading
- ignoring punctuation
- hesitation
- repetition
- insertion
- self-correction
- substitution
- teacher assistance
- mispronunciation
- Written Math
- incorrect operation
- incorrect number fact
- incorrect algorithm
- skip step in procedure
- wrong step sequence
- wrong procedure
- subtract smaller from larger
- 24 - 18 solved as 8 - 4
- random error
- slip careless error
- error in setting up problem
24Error Analysis Chart
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26Analyze Work Samples
- In place of (?) in addition to CBA
- Examine for
- error patterns
- variations in student performance when components
of task are changed - length
- format -- written, oral, computer-based
- grouping--whole class, small group, individual,
collaborative learning - worksheets vs manipulatives
27Student Report
- Interview Student
- Curricular questions
- Verbalize steps while solving problem
- Does he/she recognize error?
- Can he/she correct it?
- Why did he/she make error?
- Behavioral questions
- Liked, disliked subjects Why?
- Subjects in which he/she has problems Why?
- What could be changed to make it better, easier?
285 Reasons for Academic Learning Problems
- Wont do the work
- Performance deficit
- Cant do the work
- Task too hard
- Student needs more practice
- Student needs more help
- Hasnt done in this situation before
(generalization)
29Wont Do the Work
- Performance Deficit
- Motivational problemcompeting behaviors, sources
of reinforcement - Quick check for Performance Deficit
- Get 3 5 days of baseline chart
- Using same task, offer student incentive
- If you beat last several days (baseline)
performance, I will let you . - Use known incentive (effective reinforcer)
- Present task
- Collect performance data chart
- If student performance under incentive increases
by 15-20, then consider it a performance problem - Or Analyze sources of reinforcement for behaviors
competing with task performance
30Strategies for Wont Do(examples)
- Use High Interest Materials
- Give student choices
- Which task 1st
- How to complete, when
- Use shorter tasks
- Goal setting
- Student selects
- Teacher praise for goal achievement
- Stern talk
- Self-monitoring
- Mystery Motivator
- Teacher selects goal
- Clear marker
- Study Buddy (peer tutor)
- School Home note reward
- Treasure chest
- Box with many small items
31Cant DoMaterial is Too Hard
- To test for
- provide student with easier task/materials
- if performance improves, task too hard
- Alternatives
- slice back in skill sequence to easier skill
- check teach tool skills
- Change learning channel
- See Write to See Say
- Break task into smaller steps
- Intersperse (Sandwich) easy with more difficult
32Cant DoMaterial is Too Hard
- To test for
- provide student with easier task/materials
- if performance improves, task too hard
- do Wont Do test 1st
- Alternatives
- slice back in skill sequence to easier skill
- check teach tool skills
- Change learning channel
- See Write to See Say
- Break task into smaller steps
- Intersperse (Sandwich) easy with more difficult
33Cant DoNeeds More Practice
- Initial teaching (establishing skill)
- 10 - 20 allocated time
- effective instruction cycle
- Building fluency
- 80 allocated time for practice
- Test for
- Give student task where he has 90 accuracy but
low rate - Baseline performance
- Increase practice opportunities
- 3 - 5 x before performance assessment
34Cant Do Needs More PracticeInterventions
- Increase time for practice
- less time for instruction, more for practice
- Spread practice opportunities throughout day
- Use flash cards where appropriate
- Increase task pace
- incentives for working faster accurate
- Alter learning channel
- Drill Overcorrection for error correction
- e.g.,reading errors
- immediate feedback (within 3 sec.)
- model correct, have student repeat 5 times
- Use Peer tutoring
35Cant DoNeeds More Help
- Student has lots of errors
- increased practice counterproductive?
- Need to learn/teach skill
- Test
- task/skill in which student has high errors low
rate - provide extra help
- prompting,cueing, modeling, feedback
- Interventions
- Tell student steps
- Model steps
- Prompting
- Give feedback
- immediate
- corrective
- model correct
- Punish incorrect?
36Cant DoNeeds More Help
- Response Cards for teaching in small large
groups - increases opportunities to respond
- Comprehension Instruction
- Student reads
- Teacher stops asks comprehension question at
appropriate point - student reads new story, teacher reminds student
to ask himself questions
- Teach student signal to request help
- Tape recordings to increase vocabulary words
- teacher tapes words
- student follows along reads
- Listening Passage Preview
- student listens to adult or peer read then reads
- Cover, Copy Compare
37Make Learning Easy(Reduce Chances for Errors)
- Be prepared
- Know what, how you will teach, have materials
available accessible to you - Simplify teaching situation
- Reduce distractions, keep materials reinforcers
out of reach - Use clear simple requests
- Get attention first, then present request/task
- Keep it simple, clear, concrete behavioral
request - Use prompting
38Prompting
- Definition
- Jump-starting a behavior
- added stimulus to set occasion for behavior
- not a part of goal Stimulus for target behavior
- added stimulus likely to get behavior to occur
- use a fully charged battery to jump start
- Types
- Stimulus Prompts vs Response Prompts
- gestural or verbal
- 2 dimensional or model
- partial or full
39Response Prompts
- an extra stimulus that will get behavior started
- teacher assistance
- before a response occurs
- to increase probability of correct behavior
40Response Prompt Examples
- Teacher What is the capital of Tennessee?
- Teacher Response Prompt Na.
- Student response Nashville
- Teacher Presents blue yellow cards says
Phil, Point to blue - Teacher Physically guides Phils hand part way
toward blue card - Phil touches blue card
41Prompting
- Definition
- Jump-starting a behavior
- added stimulus to set occasion for behavior
- not a part of goal Stimulus for target behavior
- added stimulus likely to get behavior to occur
- use a fully charged battery to jump start
- Types
- Stimulus Prompts vs Response Prompts
- gestural or verbal
- 2 dimensional or model
- partial or full
42Response Prompts
- an extra stimulus that will get behavior started
- teacher assistance
- before a response occurs
- to increase probability of correct behavior
43Response Prompt Examples
- Teacher What is the capital of Tennessee?
- Teacher Response Prompt Na.
- Student response Nashville
- Teacher Presents blue yellow cards says
Phil, Point to blue - Teacher Physically guides Phils hand part way
toward blue card - Phil touches blue card
44Stimulus Prompts
- Adding something to stimulus to increase correct
response - Movement cues
- Position cues
- Redundancy cues
45Stimulus Prompt Examples
- Teacher Presents blue yellow cards says
Phil, Point to blue - Teacher taps at blue card (movement cue)
- Teacher places blue card nearer to Phil
(poisition cue) - Teacher makes blue card larger than yellow card
(redundancy cue) - Phil touches blue card
46Error Correction
- Teacher assistance
- after incorrect response
- vs. "No" "That's incorrect (an aversive)
- No only tells what is incorrect,
- what NOT TO DO next time
- guessing game
- What is 2 2? ? 5 ? No ? 10 ? No ?
1 - Corrective Feedback
- model or give information about correct response
- What is 2 2? ? 5 ? 22 is 4 ? What is
22? ? 4 ? Thats right!
47Fading Prompts
- Prompting requires
- Hierarchy of Prompts
- plan for fading prompts increasing learner
independence - shifting stimulus control
- Strategies
- Antecedent Prompt Test
- Most to Least Prompting
- Least to Most Prompting
- Graduated Guidance
- Time Delay
48Time Delay
- Definition
- Shifting control by delaying when prompt is
presented - Most to Least Least to Most change type of
prompt - Types
- progressive 0 sec delay to 1 sec to 3 sec to
5 - constant 0 to standard dely interval
49Time Delay Example
- Child cant read off task when frustrated
- teach sight word recognition of common words
- cards with words, Say the word (goal cue)
- Progressive procedure
- show card, Say the word, 0 sec delay, teacher
says word, student imitates - correct --gt praise next word
- 100 correct for 3 days
- 3 sec delay
- correct --gt praise next word
- incorrect (wrong or exceeds 3 sec.), model
correct have student repeat it
50Most to Least Prompting
- Begin with most intrusive/effective prompt
- Reduce prompting as student progresses
- Need
- hierarchy of prompts
- performance criterion for reducing prompts
- Steps
- Target Stimulus --gt PROMPT --gt Correct
- Target Stimulus --gt prompt --gt Correct
- Target Stimulus --gt prompt --gt Correct
- Target Stimulus ----------------gt Correct
51Most-to-Least Example
- Teaching eye contact to child with autism
- gaze aversion vs eye contact
- Prompt hierarchy
- Look at me or call name (goal cue)
- hold reinforcer in face, touch chin, turn head,
hold head, your face in his face (added prompts) - deliver all of prompts goal cue --gt eye contact
- looking at 100, then gradually eliminate
- face in face then holding head then turning
head, etc.
52What are Materials Modifications/Adaptations
- Changes which result in enhancement of
instructional stimuli to allow students to more
readily attain the consequence of instruction
539 Types of Materials Modifications-Adaptations
(Ebeling, Deschenes, Sprague, 1994)
- Output
- Participation
- Alternative Goals
- Substitute Curriculum
- Size
- Time
- Level of Support
- Input
- Difficulty
54Size
- Adapt number of items learner is expected to
learn or complete. - (Reducing the response cost of an activity and
providing greater opportunity for reinforcement) - Examples
- Dividing worksheet into multiple strips
- Multiple Brief Lessons
55Time
- Adapt time allotted or allowed for learning, task
completion, or testing. - Examples
- Extended time for test taking
- Setting an appropriate lesson pace
56Level of Support
- Increase personal assistance for learner
- Class Wide Peer Tutoring
- Peer Buddies
- Increase material support
- graphic organizers,
- guided notes
- Physical Support
- Carrels
- Seating Placement
- Schedules (visible)
- Rules (visible)
57Input
- Adapt HOW instruction is delivered to learner
- Computer Assisted Instruction
- Strategy Training
- Direct Instruction
58Difficulty
- Adapt skill level, problem type, or rules on how
learner may approach the work. - Appropriate Placement within Curriculum (CBM)
- Choices of tasks, order of completion
- Include multiple problem types to address
curriculum components (Levels of Learning) - alternating easy hard tasks
59Participation
- Adapt extent learner is actively involved in the
task - Cooperative Learning
- Choral Responding / Response Cards
- Partial Participation
60Output
- Adapt how learner can respond to instruction.
- Alter written to verbal response or vice-versa
- Allow student to use word processor
- Response Cards
- Cooperative Learning Groups
61Alternate Goals
- Adapt goals or outcome expectations while using
the same materials. - Integrating School Survival Skills within the
context of the General Education Curriculum - Identifying the Big Ideas (Kameenui Carnine,
1998)
62Substitute Curriculum
- Provide different instruction materials to meet
a learners individual goals. - School Survival Skills
- Functional Skills Curriculum
63Instructional Procedure Curricular Modifications
64Jolivette, Lassman, Wehby (1998)
- Modifying instruction improved academic
learning - Student
- 2nd grade, EBD, problems with mixed math
operations (adding subtracting) - Procedures
- advanced organizer (inspect, identify, highlight
sign solve) - counting up, hand to head with subtraction sign
number - Template to isolate each problem
- Counting up best for On-Task Accuracy
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67Dunlap, Foster-Johnson, Clarke, Kern Childs
(1995)
- Modify instructional activities for functional
outcomes - Students
- 3 adolescents (9-13 yrs) (autism, mental
retardation, SED, Opp Defiant Disorder) - ID problem tasks functional outcomes
- write captions for photographs, photo album
(Jill) - copy sentences laminated and used by others
(Natalie) - assembly taskmaking preferred snacks (Jary)
- More On-task fewer problem behaviors
68Mattingly Bott (1990)
- Multiplication facts 0 - 9
- students
- 4 learning-behavior disordered, 5th 6th grade
- 100 facts, 0-9, 3 x 5 cards 6 sets of facts
- Procedure
- Look -- Read the fact -- Say the answer
- 1st trial was 0 time delay
- all others 5 sec delay before teacher says answer
- correct received praise
- incorrect received time delayed correct answer
- no wait received teacher head down time out 5
sec
69- conventional wisdom
- reading instruction at each student's
instructional level, - level at which a student is 91-95 successful at
word recognition and 75 successful at answering
literal comprehension questions about the
reading. - If students routinely more successful than this,
then they are at an independent reading level and
are not likely to gain new reading skills. - If students are less successful than the
instructional level, then they are struggling
with too many words and are likely to become
frustrated.
70Areas to Consider
Chameleon changes according to the environment
71What works for one may not work for another
- Learning styles (auditory, visual, tactile,
etc.) - Reinforcers (intrinsic, extrinsic, etc)
- Disability characteristics
- Distractable (attends to everything)
- Hypersensitive (sounds, lights, etc)
- Physiological (illness, medications, etc)
72Environmental Arrangement of Classroom
- Space
- Student independence accessing materials
- Quiet/active space
- Density
- Room to move w/o bothering others
- Physical Boundaries
- Mobility - do boundaries prevent inclusion?
73Classroom Physical Layout
- Does the arrangement of the classroom add to
distractions ? - Example - Mitch
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76Classroom Physical Layout
- Are supplemental aids and seating placement being
use correctly? - EXAMPLE Ned
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79Increase Task Engagement and Class Participation
- Maximizes students learning time
- Decreases challenging behaviors
- Increases social opportunities
- Makes learning fun
- Decreases boredom
80Ways to Increase Task Engagement/Participation
contd.
- Using Schedules (classwide/individual)
- Prepares student for the day
- Reduces anxiety
- Encourages student independence
- Transitions
- Clear expectations
- Routines
- Cues/prompts
81Ways to Increase Task Engagement/Participation
contd.
- Cooperative Learning
- Students working in small group
- May need to start one/one and slowly increase
- Greater opportunity for practicing cognitive
skills ( reasoning, analyzing, etc.) - Relationship building
- Improve interpersonal, collaborative problem
solving skills
82Ways to Increase Engagement/Participation contd.
- Its all in the lesson delivery
- Objectives stated
- Reminder of possible rewards
- Make it exciting, make eye contact, gestures, use
visuals, etc - Be prepared and organized
83Ways to Increase Engagement/Participation contd.
- Direct Instruction
- Modeling
- Guided Practice
- Independent Practice
- Feedback
84IDEAS for Increasing Engagement Participation
contd.
- Response Boards
- Hot Pursuit tickets
- Dialing for Rewards
- Spinning for Assignments
- Jeopardy
- Family Feud
85Strategies for Increasing Compliance
86Strategies for Increasing Compliance
- Premack Principle - Also know as Grandmas rule
If you want ____, you have to do ______. - Behavior Momentum
- Issuing positive and fun requests before issuing
more difficult requests - Helps build up momentum for compliance
- Example Given directions for pleasant activity
before challenging assignments are made
87Strategies for Increasing Compliance contd.
- Providing Choices Providing choices gives
students the opportunity to have some control
over their environment - High Probability Request to increase likelihood
that a student will perform non-preferred tasks
88Positive Behavior Strategies
89Positive Behavior Strategies
- Tolerance for Delay Gradually increase time
student remains engaged in activity or other
appropriate behavior - without challenging behavior
- need to determine critical time period
90Positive Behavior Strategies
- Critical Time Period shortest time student will
engage in an activity without challenging
behavior - Delay signal to signal student activity is
about to end, Just 1 more - Safety signal temporarily releases student from
task/activity, Why dont you take a short
break.
91Positive Behavior Strategies contd.
- Tolerance for Delay steps
- Deliver Delay Signal
- once student is engaged just before Critical
Time Period - Deliver Safety Signal
- release student from activity
- Gradually increase task engagement
- amount of time engaged before Delay cue
- or, amount of time between Delay Safety cues
- Monitor Learner Progress
92Positive Behavior Strategies
- Format Use direct requests instead of questions
- Example I want you to stop teasing Kim and
begin your math, instead of Will you please
stop teasing Kim and get to work?
93Positive Behavior Strategies
- Distance and Loudness of Request
- Reduces amount of attention drawn to student
- Decreases students need to save face
- Eye Contact
- Need to have the students full attention
- Shows student you mean business
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94Positive Behavior Strategies
- Limit Requests
- Give only one/two simple request at a time
- Students loose track of what they are supposed to
do - Make request specific Please sit in your seat
with your feet on the floor
95Positive Behavior Strategies
- Contracts
- Should be written
- Everyone should agree and sign
- Keep your end of the bargain
- Do not give the reinforcement if it is not earned
96Contracts
- State specifically what is expected of the
student - State specifically what is given as the
reinforcer (who, when where)
97Contracts
- Help the student agree to a reasonable
expectation for his/her behavior and a reasonable
result. - Modify the contract as needed.
- Have a beginning and ending date.
98Positive Behavior Strategies
- Group Contingencies
- Get the group to help one peer
- example stop responding to inappropriate
attempts for attention - example initiate conversations
- example giving compliments
99Positive Behavior Strategies
- Group Contingencies
- Be careful not to set up a student to incur the
wrath of peers - Be careful not to let the student set the group
up to fail - Let entire class earn rewards for individual
successes
100Positive Behavior Strategies
- Restitutional Overcorrection
- The student is required to make the environment
better than it was before the misbehavior
occurred - Example Student writes on a desk, he/she will be
required to wash off all the desks in the
classroom.
101Positive Behavior Strategies
- Self Monitoring
- The ultimate goal of every behavior plan
- Particularly appropriate as students become older
- Builds in self-esteem and empowerment
- Start out monitoring with the student 100 of the
time - When student understands expectations, gradually
decrease monitoring on an irregular schedule
102Positive Behavior Strategies
- Self-Monitoring
- Eventually monitor less frequent and decrease
external reinforcers - Teach the student to monitor his/her own
reinforcers - Help him/her learn to look for cues for behaviors
and make choices
103Positive Behavior Strategies
- Reinforce Compliance
- Do not ignore compliance
- Give specific praise when a student is compliant
- Close Approximation A journey of a thousand
miles start with a single step
104Positive Behavior Strategies
- Create a menu of rewards
- Good Behavior Game
- Good Kid Patrol
- Silent Signal
- Puzzle Pieces
- On Time Slips
- Wild Cards
105Social Skill Strategies
- SS incompetence can lead to a failure cycle
- In school, adulthood, relationships, job
opportunities - Little evidence that SS are taught in the
classroom - Classroom time crowded by academics
106Social Skills Strategies contd.
- Survivor make students more aware of
problems/concerns in the school/classroom - What would you do game?- Students respond to
issues/situation that they have/may encounter - Talk Ticket scheduled time for teacher
attention - Brag Boards Point out quality of individual
strengths - Journal Writing use class/school
issues/situations to write about in jounal
107Social Skills Strategies contd.
- Set up social situations
- Create an accepting environment in your
classroom/school - Develop classwide/individual cues
- Avoid tradition selection procedures
- Praise and identify appropriate social skills
108Simple Data Collection Methods
- How to determine if strategies are effective
- Momentary time sampling
- Frequency recording
- Permanent product
- Be sure to collect baseline data to compare to
intervention data
109Contact InformationDr. James Fox Project
DirectorPhone 423-439-7556 orfoxj_at_mail.etsu.edu
Leia Blevins Project Manager Phone
423-439-7547or blevinsl_at_mail.etsu.eduhttp//mak
eadifference.etsu.edu