ERIC Number: EJ1434882
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jul
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
EISSN: EISSN-2163-5684
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Professional Development with Ongoing Coaching: A Model for Improving Educators' Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices
Alicia F. Saunders; Shawnee Wakeman; Brett Cerrato; Holly Johnson
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v56 n6 p430-439 2024
Behavior skills training (BST) with ongoing coaching is an effective form of professional development that creates sustained educator practice change and improves student outcomes. We provide a model for how BST can be used to improve the implementation of evidence-based practices with both teachers and paraprofessionals, the latter of whom often do not receive professional development opportunities or coaching. We propose a model for BST with digital tools that can be used in face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual formats, which is timely given the pandemic. A vignette with a dyad of educators is used to illustrate the model and examples of fidelity and coaching forms are included. A figure of the BST process with visual supports provided to the educators is included.
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Professional Development, Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Coaching (Performance)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) (ED/OSERS)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: H326M180005
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