YEAR 2 CURRICULUM
*Year 2 modules span a duration of 4-6 weeks.
MODULE 7:
Focus on Systemic Change: Social/Emotional/Behavioral/Mental Health Interventions
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance, challenges, and strategies for linking multi-tiered systems of support and intervention for children and youth in school with community and school-based mental health services.
- Understand the IEP team/process as immediate context for delivery of effective, coordinated behavioral and mental health interventions.
- Understand the importance of engaging principals and school leaders in supporting effective interventions for students’ mental health, across all three tiers.
- Understand the background and history of services and interventions for youth with EBD as well as different service delivery models and interdisciplinary perspectives of EBD.
- Understand the ecological and person-in-context perspectives of development and intervention (developmental context).
- Understand the interplay between classroom management and individualized intervention.
- Understand the delivery of effective intervention components to meet students’ individual needs.
- Identify what data can be reliably collected from teachers, social workers, parents, and related service providers to show whether interventions work.
MODULE 8:
Group Work on Collaborative Research Review Projects
SUMMARY:
Scholars and Faculty work in cross-institutional groups on a literature review. There are no additional resources available for this module.
MODULE 9:
Explicit Instruction
Learning Objectives:
- Identify elements of explicit instruction framework.
- Generate intervention materials that could be used to teach students with difficulties or disabilities.
- Include elements of explicit instruction in the generated teaching materials.
MODULE 10:
Group Work on Collaborative Research Review Projects
SUMMARY:
Scholars and Faculty work in cross-institutional groups on a literature review. There are no additional resources available for this module.
MODULE 11:
Applying a Taxonomy to Intensify Interventions
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the seven dimensions included in “The Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity” (Fuchs, Fuchs, and Malone, 2016).
- Describe features of this taxonomy that may need to be adapted or extended when considering behavioral interventions.
- Describe how recommendations from primary readings align with the taxonomy.
- Explain how the taxonomy and related recommendations can be applied to an extant intervention in order to intensify the intervention.
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MODULE 12:
Group Work on Collaborative Research Review Projects
SUMMARY:
Scholars and Faculty work in cross-institutional groups on a literature review. There are no additional resources available for this module.
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