1. Jamie Owen-DeSchryver, PhD
START Early Childhood Training Increasing Learning Opportunities: Knowledge to Action
Amy Matthews, Ph.D., BCBA
Jamie Owen-DeSchryver, PhD
Grand Valley State University
Linda Elenbaas
Ottawa Area Intermediate School District

2. Welcome Back

3. Action Plan Review

4. Before you Leave Today What we need to do to finish the day:
See Team Binder –
Module 5 Tab for checklist and folder. Leave all listed forms in the folder.
2. Review your action plan with the START staff

5. Information Needed Please complete today and turn in:
Post Training Questionnaire
Effective Practices Assessment and Planning Tool (EPAT) (pink form)
Please turn in:
EC Target Student Reporting Form (pink form)

7. Agenda Intensive Teaching Outlining a Plan for Next Year
Celebrate Successes
Preparing Children for Transition
Share the learning (30 min)
Brief training review (15 min)
Celebrating success (15 min)
Break (12 min)
Setting an end of the year goal (30 min)
Outlining a plan for next year (45 min)
Complete evaluation forms (15 min)

8. Wow, that’s a good idea
If you hear any good ideas you want to take back and try right away, put them on the Wow form

9. Get out your team action plan (green form)
Complete your Target Student Data and share your Action Plan with us and Get a Resource for Your Classroom and something for each team member

10. Implementing Intensive Teaching

11. Early Childhood Assessment Tool

13. What have you learned from the training?

14. Big Ideas for Early Intervention
Identify and intervene early
Use evidence based practices
Increase learning opportunities (i.e. opportunities to respond with feedback) and student engagement
Use effective instructional delivery (3 Rs: Request, Response, Reaction)
Focus on meaningful, functional goals and tasks (independence and socialization)
Establish an effective classroom structure to ensure learning

15. Big Ideas for Early Intervention
Establish positive patterns of behavior early on
Prevent problem behaviors with antecedent strategies
Provide lots of meaningful integration opportunities
Use data to confirm progress and make programming decisions
Carefully plan for transition to elementary
Work as a team and include families

16. Celebrate Your Success
We did it!
What have you accomplished this year?
Top implementation success in classroom
Top student success
Top team success
Eat Candy

17. Future Planning: This Year and Next Year
Review tools, plans, and priorities identified from the year
What are the key priorities for your team to address for the rest of this year and into next year?
Future Planning

18. Early Childhood Transition

19. Before you Leave Today What we need to do to finish the day:
See Team Binder –
Module 5 Tab for checklist and folder. Leave all listed forms in the folder.
2. Review your action plan with the START staff