Teachers will explore the question "What specific assessment and instructional strategies will result in increased performance and more acceptable behaviors for students with different disabilities in alternative education settings?" Teachers will be able to:

• Discuss the Levels of Interpersonal Skills model for assessing and planning effective instructional and behavioral interventions
• Analyze the level of complexity at which an individual typically functions
• Plan activities and strategies to support the individual in moving into more complex activity levels
• Explain how communicative disorders affects both learning and behavior and strategies to assess and intervene with expressive and receptive language delays.
• Select appropriate modifications in the assessment process to maximize learning and minimize frustration
• Select appropriate interventions to maximize effectiveness of instructional process.

Agenda	Materials	Time
Welcome Objectives Agenda	Agenda, OH	05
PowerPoint Presentation: Overview Presentation	PowerPoint Presentation (coming soon...)   HTML Format   PowerPoint   PDF Format Lecture Notes   HTML Format   PDF Format   Word Document Format	15
Debriefing	Verbal sharing by participants	15
Sample Activity: Self Assessment using Interpersonal Skills Model and a selected new skill (bungee jumping, sky diving, crating a sculpture)	Activity 1 ( Activity Sheet)   HTML Format PDF Format Word Document Format	15
Individual Application Activity: Case Study	Activity 2 ( Develop case study)   HTML Format PDF Format Word Document Format	10
Action Planning Activity	Activity 3 ( Activity sheets/instructions)   HTML Format PDF Format Word Document Format	20
Debriefing Journal Activity	Activity 4 (Journal Prompt)   HTML Format	05

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