SN Vol. 33, No. 1 | Sept./Oct. 2024
Featured Article: Providing a Continuum of Special Education Supports, Dana McCaleb, SIM PD Leader (VA)
In “Big Ideas in Special Education: Specially Designed Instruction, High-leverage Practices, Explicit Instruction, and Intensive Instruction,” the authors (2017) support educators' understanding the relationships and hierarchies among key special education concepts. They include a visual guide (i.e., nested structure of special education terms) to illustrate how special education terms interconnect to support effective educational support for students with disabilities. The Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) provides a foundation for instruction, beginning with targeted interventions and strengthening less intensive levels of support throughout the continuum. SIM, a comprehensive approach to adolescent literacy, includes evidence-based instructional tools and interventions to help students succeed. The light bulb graphic, in Figure 1, represents how SIM underpins all instruction, viewed from the base upward.
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Note: Image adapted from “Big Ideas in Special Education: Specially Designed Instruction, High-leverage Practices,Explicit Instruction, and Intensive Instruction,” by P. J. Riccomini, S. Morano, and C. A. Hughes, 2017, Teaching Exceptional Children, 50(1), p. 22. Adapted with permission.
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