

| ...Overcoming Life's Obstacles |
| COURSE OFFERINGS Best Practice Instructional Strategies for Effective Teaching |
In this train the trainer session, Dr. Pomeranz provides attendees with intensive hands on experience of best practice technology for facilitating skill acquisition. Through demonstration and role- play, attendees will enhance their skills in training “direct support professionals” in effectively teaching individuals: daily living, vocational, leisure, social and community participation skills. Dr. Pomeranz focuses the session on the fundamental strategies of promoting independence and self-determination. The instructional strategies address: verbal prompting, training materials usage, physical queuing, physical prompting, backward chaining, graduated guidance, successive approximations, proximity control and environmental engineering. The session also reinforces the precept that an essential responsibility of all support staff is to emancipate the individuals they support – from unnecessary dependence. Return to Course Offerings |
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