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2nd Edition

Systematic Instruction for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

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Belva C Collins

  • Systematic Instruction for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

248 pages
Interest Age: 5 to 18
2021
ISBN: 9781681254388

To improve outcomes for students with moderate and severe disabilities, K–12 educators need to understand the why and how of good instructional practices. They’ll find comprehensive guidance in the second edition of this bestselling text on systematic instruction, a highly effective teaching approach rooted in applied behavior analysis (ABA).

Fully revised and updated with timely topics and new sample lesson plans, this reader-friendly textbook prepares teachers to use dynamic, adaptable systematic instruction strategies to teach core content that is age-appropriate, meaningful, and relevant to students’ lives. Educators will discover evidence-based methods that help them with every step of systematic instruction, from collecting accurate screening and baseline data to supporting students as they generalize new skills to other settings. And faculty members will get a complete package of online instructor materials they can use in their courses, including test banks, PowerPoint slides, flowcharts for instructional procedures, and blank data sheets.

Written by a seasoned educator with decades of experience training a multitude of teachers, this is the accessible, up-to-date text today’s teachers need to succeed in inclusive classrooms and improve outcomes for students with moderate and severe disabilities.

Whats new:

  • Revised and updated chapters throughout, with a wealth of practical strategies
  • A full package of online faculty materials
  • 14 new sample lesson plans, including learning objectives, instructional contexts, materials needed, teaching procedures, data-collection guidelines, maintenance and generalization strategies, and lesson extensions and variations
  • Insightful commentary from special educators in each chapter
  • More on working with parents and caregivers
  • Guidance in each chapter about adapting systematic instruction methods for distance learning
  • New chapter on making instructional decisions and exercising leadership
  • Explicit guidance on combining functional core content with standards-based instruction
  • More on inclusion and culturally responsive practices
  • Up-to-date research on systematic instruction

Table of Contents

About the Downloads

About the Author

Preface

Foreword Erik Carter, Ph.D.

Acknowledgments

Section I Setting the Context for Systematic Instruction

Chapter 1 Using Systematic Instruction When Teaching Standards in Inclusive Classrooms

Chapter 2 Using Technology with Systematic Instruction

Chapter 3 Involving Others in Implementing Systematic Instruction

Chapter 4 Developing Data Sheets and Collecting Baseline Data

Chapter 5 Using Effective Practices to Teach Learners with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Section II Delivering Systematic Instruction

Chapter 6 Applying the Principles of ABA to Teach Learners with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Chapter 7 Using Response Prompting Strategies: Graduated Guidance, Most-to-Least Prompting, and System of Least Prompts

Chapter 8 Using Response Prompting Strategies: Time Delay and Simultaneous Prompting Procedures

Chapter 9 Increasing the Efficiency of Instruction

Chapter 10 Facilitating Maintenance and Generalization

Chapter 11 Making Instructional Decisions and Exercising Leadership

Chapter 11 Appendix: Flowchart for Designing Instructional Programs Using Response Prompting Procedures

Appendix A Sample Programs Using Systematic Instruction

Appendix B Glossary

Index

"Even more of a gift than the first edition, this book provides the tools needed to stand tall in our belief that all individuals with moderate and severe disabilities can and will learn when provided quality instruction. This book is the key to high quality-instruction in all settings."
- Bree Jimenez, Associate Professor of Special Education, The University of Texas at Arlington

"Readers can build an entire classroom instructional program through the straightforward step-by-step process that Dr. Collins provides. The concrete, relatable examples make it easy for educators to strengthen their classroom practices and improve outcomes for their students."
- Kevin Ayres, Center for Autism & Behavioral Education Research, University of Georgia

"This is a seminal text in our field...If I was told that I could use only one text in educating new teachers of students with moderate and severe disabilities, this is the one I would choose."
- Harold Kleinert, Human Development Institute, Prof Emeritus, College of Health Sciences, University of Kentucky

"informative, resource-rich text...The use of systematic instruction to achieve inclusive lives is at the heart of this book, making it go-to resource for any educator interested in creating high-quality instruction for learners with low-incidence disabilities."
- Jennifer Kurth, Ass Professor, Dept of Special Ed, University of Kansas