Module 2 Learning Guides

Guide Name and Description/Objectives

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Learning Guide 2.1: Setting the Stage- Pre-Module

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges teachers face when interacting with students with and without disabilities.

Learning Guide 2.2: Ask The Expert

With this guide, learners will:

• Describe transition and transition practices..
• Identify key characteristics of recommended practices to support transition.

Learning Guide 2.3: Role of the Practitioner

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify communication strategies that support practitioners with effectively exchanging information.
• Learn the practitioner's role in exchanging information between programs.
• Practice exchanging information.

Learning Guide 2.4: Continuity and Alignment

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify planned and timely strategies before, during, and after transition.

Learning Guide 2.5: Voices from the Field

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify practitioners' and families' strategies and considerations for transitions practices by including children's individual goals and outcomes, looking at the importance of preparation for transition, and identifying the specific aspects of transitions from NICU to early intervention.

Learning Guide 2.6: Scenario-Based Activity

This guide contains a set of five simulations/scenarios that can be used in place of, or in addition to, the online simulation.

With this guide:

• Learners will practice professional discussions that address the continuity and alignment of transition services.
• Learners will apply what they have learned about transitions practices to suggest planned and timely strategies that contribute to greater positive outcomes for children.

Learning Guide 2.7: Reframing Activity Guide

With this guide:

• The learner will reframe statements about families to reflect an anti-bias viewpoint.
• The learner will reflect on implicit bias and its impact on their practice.

Learning Guide 2.8: Planned and Timely Strategies Table

Transition practices are an intentional set of activities that promote communication between sending and receiving practitioners, engage families in collaborative planning, and support the preparation and adjustment of children and families to a change in settings or programs.

Learning Guide 2.9: Practice Dilemmas

With this guide, learners will:

• be able to identify a practice dilemma related to conducting transitions for families and children with disabiltiies.
• be able to provide powerful and open-ended questions and/or solutions to other learners' practice dilemmas.

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Learning Guide 2.10: Performance Feedback Guide

This guide can be used to debrief with learners following their participation in a transition for a child and family in either their own classroom/setting/program or in field-experiences associated with university coursework.

Learning Guide 2.11: Practice Profile

Transition practices are an intentional set of activities that promote communication between sending and receiving practitioners, engage families in collaborative planning, and support the preparation and adjustment of children and families to a change in settings or programs.

Learning Guide 2.12: Setting the Stage- Wrap-Up

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges practitioners face when working with families and children with disabiltiies transitioning between settings i.e., hospital-home, early intervention-preschool, preschool-kindergarten).
• Develop solutions to these challenges and practices to support successful transitions between settings for children and families based on the module content.