***Using Data-Based Instruction to Improve the Learning Outcomes of Students Who are Difficult to Teach***
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Topic 8: Designing and Evaluating Instructional Interventions

Congratulations --You are getting into the flow of DBI!

Focus Questions for Topic 8

1. What antecedents can I change in my teaching environment to get a change in the learner?

2. What consequences can I change?

3. Are there other aspects of the teaching/learning environment that I can change?

When you answer these focus questions, you will be completing Part V of your Data-Based Instruction Project. DBI Report Section 5: Designing Instructional Interventions

In this section of your report, please be sure to include the following information:

explain the ABCs of instructional interventions (e.g., antecedents, consequences, schedule of teaching events, etc.);
include error correction procedures (especially include what you do when the student answers correctly, what you do when the student is incorrect or has no response to the academic behavior being requested);
explain planned and implemented changes in instructional systems.

As shown the information in Table 1 , there are many researched instructional management systems. Remember that your instructional interventions encompass a wide range of teacher behaviors. For further elaboration, see Topic 5--the ABCs of DBI.

For further ideas about the types of instructional interventions you might consider, depending on the academic subject matter you are teaching, see Topic 1--what are effective teaching practices.

For ideas from other practitioners, see the Executive Summaries from previous participants' Data-Based Instruction Projects.

You may also have found some excellent ideas based on your own browsing of the World Wide Web. Be sure to document what you have found by including that information in this section of your report.

Consider the following way of thinking about teaching and learning which underlies the successful implementation of data-based instruction. Key Thought I am responsible (accountable) and response-able (flexible) to my learners!

As you complete this section of your data-based instruction project, you may realize the importance of your willingness to adapt your instruction to meet the needs of your learners. This is a level of response-ability (your flexibility, or the ability to change the way you respond) that is needed!

In fact, you are showing your own response-ability by being flexible in your instruction and your own responsibility (accountability) through the monitoring system you have used. You are also showing responsibility to your learner. You may be interested in how an entire faculty banded together to demonstrate a similar level of responsibility, see "An Example from a Multicultural School District" with the resulting impact of increased response-ability and responsibility on the part of the learners as well as their teachers.

Now you are ready to complete Part 5 of your Data-Based Instruction Project by addressing the Focus Questions for Topic 8!

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The answers to these Focus Questions comprise Section 5 of the DBI Project.

What are the ABCs (antecedents, behaviors, consequences) already in effect for my learner?

What antecedents can I change in my teaching environment to get a change in the learner?

What consequences can I change?

What are my error correction procedures?

Are there other aspects of the teaching/learning environment that I can change?

Now, please give us some feedback about your experience with DBI Part 5.

a. About how many hours did you spend working on DBI Part 5?

b. What (if any) problems did you have in completing DBI Part 5, either with the content area or with the technology?

c. What recommendations would you make to improve DBI Part 5?

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