***Using Data-Based Instruction to Improve the Learning Outcomes of Students Who are Difficult to Teach***
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Topic 9: Making Data-Based Decisions and Reporting Progress--Continued

Focus Questions for Topic 9

1. Are your instructional interventions creating the desired changes in the learner?

2. What decisions are you making?

3. How will your report your results?

Now that you have completed Parts 1-6 of the Data-Based Instruction Project, what have you noticed about the way you think about teaching and learning for students who are difficult to teach? We believe that the underlying thought pattern most helpful to us as teachers of "challenging students" is captured in the following "key thought".
Key Thought Use the Power of Words to Expand Your Life. Change "Should" to "Could". Change "Won't" to "Will." Change "Can't" to "Can."

Have you noticed any changes in the words you say to yourself and others about teaching students who are difficult-to teach? Do you notice that your beliefs about their abilities have shifted from seeing their weaknesses to seeing their strengths?

You are now ready to complete the Executive Summary of your Data-Based Instruction project! Given the in-depth information you have written in Parts 1-6 of the DBI Project, please excerpt (summarize) so that a one-page report will result.

Part 7 Data-Based Instruction Project

Please enter the following information:

Name

E-mail address One Page Executive Summary of Data-Based Instruction: Spring 1998

Teacher:

School :

Class/Age/Grade, Type(s) of Disability, Curriculum Focus:

Brief Description of Learner(s) (Including Characteristics and Learning Needs):

Academic Behavior(s):

Monitoring System(s):

Instructional System (Antecedents/Consequences of the Academic Behavior):

Error Correction Procedure(s):

Intervention System (Changes in Antecedents/Consequences and Error Correction Procedures):

Summary of Results:

Recommendations:

Overall Reflection of Your Progress in Implementing Effective Teaching Practices and Instructional Management Systems:

Now, please give us some feedback about your experience with DBI Part 7.

a. About how many hours did you spend working on DBI Part 7?

b. What (if any) problems did you have in completing DBI Part 7, either with the content area or with the technology?

c. What recommendations would you make to improve DBI Part 7?

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