Module 2: Teaching in the Context of Meaningful Routines and Using the Inclusion Planning Matrix
Summary
Creating meaningful routines for students with complex needs has the potential to address individual IEP goals, therapy goals, and learning in context while engaging the Quality of Life Indicators. Inclusion Outreach’s planning matrix demonstrates how individual IEP objectives practiced in different routines can target different and multiple Quality of Life Indicators. Meaningful routines and the planning matrix tool are the perfect collaboration for creating learning opportunities that can enhance current and future quality-of-life for students with complex needs.
Key Terms
- Planning Matrix
- The four-step planning matrix is a simple and effective process to create meaningful skill building for students with complex needs. The matrix weaves IEP objectives into the context of daily routines while improving quality-of-life.
- Routines
- Commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as that are done regularly or at specified intervals.
- Task analysis
- Task analysis is used to break complex tasks into a sequence of smaller steps or actions.
References and Resources
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Pratt, C., & Steward, L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis: The role of task analysis and chaining. Retrieved from https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/articles/applied-behavior-analysis.html
Stelitano, L., Russell, J., & Bray, L. (2019). Organizing for Meaningful Inclusion: Exploring the Routines That Shape Student Supports in Secondary Schools. American Educational Research Journal. 57(2). 535-575. doi:10.3102/0002831219859307.
The Inclusion Outreach team wants to acknowledge the ideas from and collaboration with an educational team from School District 41, Burnaby, that led to the development of the Inclusion Outreach Planning Matrix.