Instruction

Companion guide for Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committees to support implementation and decision-making alongside the TEKS Behavior Alignment Tool.

This video shows how one educator uses a personal communication dictionary to document student-specific actions and their meanings.

This video shows how Mr. Broden, a middle school special education teacher, uses the Sample Grading Rubric for Students with Complex Access Needs and demonstrates how to: identify prerequisite skill access points to TEKS provide instruction that integrates individual accommodations and modifications

This video shows how one educator adapts age-appropriate books and texts in ways that match her students’ unique strengths and abilities to increase interest and engagement, support vocabulary development, and strengthen understanding of concepts and experiences.

This video shows how one educator identifies student response modes and plans the vocabulary, supports, and questions for her instruction and assessments so that her students can respond with their preferred response modes.

This video shows how one educator plans the vocabulary, supports, and questions for her instruction and assessments so that students can respond with the vocabulary that they have available in their communication systems.

A first/then visual support is an effective strategy used to help students understand and follow a sequence of activities.