Ecological Assessment
This is the central question to an ecological assessment.
What does the student need to be successful?
Strategies that provide access to the curriculum, and modifications make meaning of the curriculum?
What are "accommodations"?
An evidence-based practice used to identify natural opportunities to teach a given skill.
What is "embedded instruction"?
Activities that happen most days during an activity or lesson, including following verbal instructions from a teacher, participating in small group activities, copying material from the board, completing a worksheet or other independent work, and partaking in other frequently occurring activities unique to a particular class.
What is a routine?
These supports are available to all students.
What are "Universal curricular supports?"
Because the student was not able to practice important skills often enough during a class period to make adequate progress toward their goals.
Why do we use "embedded instruction?"
Answering this question will provide information for educators to determine when a student is, or is not, successful during a particular routine.
Was the student with disabilities successful in completing this part of the routine?
These are individualized curricular supports.
What are "accommodations and modifications"?
Identify natural opportunities to work on important skills and then create supplementary opportunities throughout the school day when enough natural opportunities are not possible.
How do we use "embedded instruction"?