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Making Accommodations for Students with Mental Retardation

Specify the Instruction Objectives:

List the objectives in observable terms such that

they will communicate to others.

Focus the objectives on what is directly the

instrucitonal target.

Plan how the objectives will be evaluated to

ensure continued student progress.

Sequence Skills:

Be sure prerequisite skills are mastered first.

Sequence easy skills before more difficult ones.

Plan to teach confusing concepts separately.

Match Instructional Tactic with Topic

or Skill to Be Taught

Select a tactic that has been proven through

rigorous research..

Continued -

Monitor its effectiveness continu-

ously.

Change tactics when it is no

longer effective.

Provide Many Opportu-

nities for Practice:

Have students apply their

learning in different settings.

Have students apply their

learning with slightly different

or expanded skills.

Be Certain That the Skill

Is Truly Mastered!

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