本文原载于 开始连接 2024年3月. 

When we support students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in the Least Restrictive Environment, we are committed to identifying opportunities for meaningful engagement with general education content. 有意的, systematic planning is needed to ensure all students, including those with extensive support needs, are active members of the classroom with authentic opportunities to learn alongside peers. 

Practicing collaborative lesson planning is one strategy to promote student engagement in the general education curriculum. 通过这种方法, general and special educators work together to efficiently design lessons that enhance student learning (Kuntz & 卡特,2021). Such lessons provide access to the rich content and instruction found within the general education experience. 

How does collaborative planning support student learning and engagement? The partnership and dialogue of collaborative planning allows educators to spark ideas for instructional activities, remove common barriers to student learning, identify the essential concepts and vocabulary to teach, and optimize engagement (联系中心 (2021): 包容的大创意).  

Collaboration is a process that requires a limited resource: time. Teachers are busy and need to be as efficient as possible when planning support for individual students. To make the process of collaborative planning easier, general education and special education teachers can use 5-15-45工具 由TIES中心开发. A summary of this resource can be found in this 摩天观景轮.

5-15-45工具和资源

5-15-45工具 offers easy-to-follow templates and video guidance on how to begin and maintain collaborative lesson planning based on the amount of time you and your planning partner have. 

5分钟
The 联系中心 offers a short video explaining the 5-minute meeting and they provide a downloadable template to keep the meeting structured. After attempting this process for the first time, you and your planning partner might be surprised by how efficient and well-designed the process is, 只占用你5分钟的时间!

15分钟
Watch this brief video explaining the added benefits of a 15-minute meeting and view an expanded downloadable template. In the video, you will also learn about the 包容性战略资源. Once you have clarified the goal of the lesson and addressed barriers, strategies can be considered and selected. The tool emphasizes the importance of obtaining student feedback on approaches that help their learning. The 包容性战略资源 页面 provides multiple options to “Spark Student Engagement,“激发学生的理解。,和“鼓励学生参与”,” with tips on how to implement and teach each strategy.

45分钟或更长时间
If you and your collaborative planning partner are ready for a deeper dive and have more time available, download the 45-minute planning template and check out the 包容的大创意 resource. For those who are eager to keep going, there are also suggestions for implementing lessons across multiple units.  

在他们的 资源 页面, the 联系中心 offers customizable email messages to help educators reach out to potential collaborators or administrators to request planning time, an agenda for making the best use of time together, and articles and briefs to support the planning process. 

When we collaborate to create meaningful and goal-aligned general education lessons that embed strategies for engagement, 理解, and participation for students with extensive support needs, we set high expectations for students. “The positive correlation between active student engagement and academic achievement is one of the most well-established and robust findings in all of educational research” (McLeskey et al., 2022, p. 251). When given the opportunity to participate academically alongside grade-level peers with grade-level materials, learning outcomes for students with IEPs are optimized.

写的: 丽森·德尔坎普，埃德.S. – Autism Education and Intervention Specialist and Jamie Owen-DeSchryver, Ph.D. -项目学院

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