Guide Name and Description/Objectives

Related Lesson/Module Section

Learning Guide 1.1: 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 1.2: Ask The Expert

With this guide, learners will:

• Describe the research that supports interactional practices.
• Identify key characteristics of recommended practices to support interaction.

Learning Guide 1.3: Gathering Information

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify nonverbal and verbal cues and interests of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
• Practice using observation to identify and interpret a child’s nonverbal and verbal signals and interests, abilities, and emotions.

Learning Guide 1.4a: Take Action

With this guide, learners will:

• Understand and practice interacting and responding appropriately to nonverbal and verbal cues of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
• Understand and practice evaluating the effectiveness of the interaction and response.

Learning Guide 1.4b: Take Action

With this guide, learners will:

• Understand and practice interacting and responding appropriately to nonverbal and verbal cues of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
• Understand and practice evaluating the effectiveness of the interaction and response.

Learning Guide 1.5: Voices from the Field

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify practitioners' and families' strategies forinteracting with children who might have experienced abuse and neglect, children with low-incidence disabilities, and children with disabilities.

Learning Guide 1.6: Observations Checklist

With this guide:

• The learner will implement sensitive and responsive interactions with children.
• The learner will observe if the change in interactional practices resulted in a change in child outcomes.
• The learner will identify what worked well and what didn’t and plan appropriate changes.

Learning Guide 1.7: 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 carrying out sensitive and responsive interactions.
• Learners will apply what they have learned about interactional practices.

Learning Guide 1.8: Reframing Activity

With this guide:

• Learners will reframe statements about children's interactions to reflect an anti-bias viewpoint.
• Learners will reflect on implicit bias and its impact on their practice.

Learning Guide 1.9: Practice Dilemmas

With this guide:

• Learners will be able to identify a practice dilemma related to interacting with young children with and without disabilities.
• Learners will be able to provide powerful and open-ended questions and/or solutions to ther learners' practice dilemma.

Module 1 Do Section

Module 1 Study Section

Learning Guide 1.10: Performance Feedback Guide

This guide can be used in class when learners are engaged in role-plays or scenario-based activities. Also, this guide can be used when supervising learners in early childhood settings with children.

Learning Guide 1.11: Practice Profile

Module 1 Interactions Practice Profile connects DEC Recommended Practices for Interactions with how this practice contributes to child outcomes and describes example behavior of practitioners that are associated with each practice.

Learning Guide 1.12: Setting the Stage- Wrap-Up

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges practitioners are facing when interacting with children with and without disabilities.
• Describe how practitioners can implement DEC Recommended Practices for Interaction when faced with dilemmas.