Overview: This workshop provides participants with video examples and practice activities on
how to implement the evidence-based practices identified in the National Standards Report
(2009). The research-based STAR Program (Arick, Loos, Falco and Krug, 2015), is used to
provide examples. Appropriate content connected to curriculum is
presented and detailed information on the three evidenced-based instructional methods of
discrete trial training, pivotal response training and teaching through functional routines are
shared. Participants will learn to implement structured lesson plans and collect data to make
instructional decisions using the materials provided in the STAR Program.
Consistency: This is a follow-up session to the "Overview" which provides participants a review of how to implement the evidence based instructional strategies identified by the National Standards Project (2009) using the
curriculum content and lesson plans from the research-based STAR Program. The focus of the
workshop is on fidelity of implementation of the evidence-based practices and use of data
collection for instructional decision making. The workshop will engage participants in hands on practice activities to become fluent in the instructional strategies of discrete trial training,
pivotal response training and teaching functional routines as described in the STAR Program.
Participants will also be provided with detailed handouts to assist them to obtain fidelity of
implementation in their school programs. Participants at this workshop should have attended
the two or three day STAR comprehensive workshop or be very familiar with the
implementation of the strategies included in the STAR Program.