Choosing Outcomes & Accommodations for Children Coach

COACH is better than ever! Now with practical updates based on user feedback and a new streamlined format for easier use, the third edition of this bestselling guide can be the key to effective educational planning for students with intensive special education needs in inclusion-oriented schools. Based on 25 years of field testing and widely used by thousands of education teams, COACH is the educational planning choice for students ages 3¿21 in supported general education settings. Retaining the core elements of the popular previous editions, this revised edition organizes planning into a clear step-by-step process. Professionals and families will have an effective process to help them collaborate on IEPs that promote inclusive opportunities for students with a range of developmental disabilities. Education teams will discover how to implement a collaborative and family-centered approach to teamwork, explore the current and future status of valued life outcomes, and identify appropriate curriculum areas to assess. Ready-to-use, fillable forms and tools¿now on CD-ROM¿help educators organize goals and objectives, determine their students¿ learning styles, schedule class activities, plan and adapt instruction, and evaluate the impact of instruction on student outcomes. To model successful COACH implementation, this book also walks readers through three complete examples of the COACH process for a kindergartner, an elementary school student, and a transition-age teenager.