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FUNDAMENTALS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING FOR PRESCHOOLERS

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Description:

Training will include lecture presentations with videos, DVDs, and examples of structured materials. Participants will have opportunities to make structured materials for case study vignettes in small groups then present to the large group. The topics include an overview of the characteristics of autism, informal assessment, structured teaching, communication, and behavior management.

Date:

Monday April 16, 2012-Tuesday April 17, 2012

Training Location:

Charlotte East Office Park
5700 Executive Center Drive
Charlotte, NC  28212

Center

Charlotte Center

Category:

Workshop

Agenda:

April 16-17, 2012

Monday, April 16, 2012

8:00-8:30     Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:45     Introductions and Workshop Overview
Overview: Structured Teaching and the TEACCH Program
Overview of Autism
9:45-10:00    Break
10:00-11:30  Learning Needs of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders)
11:30-12:30  Lunch (on your own)
12:30-1:45    Informal Classroom Assessment
Large Group Assessment Activity
1:45-2:00      Break
2:00-3:30      Introduction to structured Teaching and Physical Structure
Application Activity for Physical Structure
Small Group Presentations

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

8:00-8:30      Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:15    Structured Teaching: Schedules
Application Activity: Schedules
(Break Incorporated)
Small Group Presentations
10:15-11:30  Structured Teaching: Visual Structure
Application Activity: Visual Structure
Small Group presentations
11:30-12:30  Lunch (on your own)
12:30-2:00    Structured Teaching: Work Systems
Application Activity: Work Systems
Small Presentation
2:00-2:15      Break
2:15-3:15      Structure Throughout Life:
Preschool Video
Supported Employment video
3:15-3:30      Evaluations & CEUs

**Teachers who would like presenters and participants to problem-solve with them about their classroom set-up (physical structure) may e-mail up to 3 photos of their classroom WITHOUT STUDENTS TO jenna_spence@med.unc.edu by Tuesday, April 2, 2012.

Presenters:

  1. Dr. Nancy Dartnall, Associate Director and the Charlotte Staff

Target Audience:

Those who work with young children or beginning learners with autism such as classroom teachers and assistants in self-contained special education classrooms, private daycare and preschool workers, early intervention home teachers, developmental play therapists, CBS workers, school psychologists, other related services personnel, such as speech language pathologists, guidance counselors, occupational therapists, and parents of children with autism. This training is for people who have not attended a TEACCH training before or who would like a review of basic Structured Teaching principles.

Content:

Since 1972, Division TEACCH has coordinated the nation's largest statewide education and treatment program for children and adults with autism and related communication handicaps. With IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) emphasizing least restrictive settings, more people with autism and other severe behavior, learning and communication disorders are being served in an array of school and community settings. This has increased the need for comprehensive in-service training. Division TEACCH, a division of the Medical School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides training programs to teachers and other professionals from around the world.

Objectives:

• Increase participants’ familiarity with the characteristics of autism and with the learning styles of students with autism.
• Introduce procedures necessary for completing informal assessment in the classroom and developing curriculum goals.
• Introduce participants to the fundamental principles of Structured Teaching and how it is applied in the classroom and during leisure through the use of   physical structure, schedules, work systems, and visual structure.

Continuing Education Credits:

Only contact hours of attendance will be provided for participants to use when obtaining credits from their own school systems.

Selection:

Due to the nature of this program space is limited and will be assigned on a “first come, first served” basis. Once full, applicants will be put on a waiting list should openings become available. 

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Registration deadline is April 2, 2012. Payment must accompany application.

Cost:

NC Professional                                $170
Nonresident Professional                  $330


Fees do not include travel or accommodations. Fees include registration, continental breakfast, snacks and training materials.

Information:

Vivian McIntyre, Training Manager

Charlotte TEACCH Center
Phone: 704/563-4103   Fax: 704/563-4112
E-mail: gastoniateacch@med.unc.edu

Accommodations:

Holiday Inn Express & Suites
9420 East Independence Blvd.
Matthews, NC 28105
704/443-3100

Quality Inn & Suites
13470 East Independence Blvd.
Matthews, NC  28105
704/821-9800

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