High-Leverage Practice (HLP) for Special Education Review;
(25% of your grade; due Module 11)
For your final project, you will examine one High Leverage INSTRUCTIONAL Practice (HLIP) in-depth and discuss it in a paper of 8-10 pages in length using APA format. APA formatting resource
You will use at least three different academic resources from the Touro library that are from peer-reviewed EDUCATION JOURNALS that have researched this HLIP to support your ideas.
First, you will read about what an HLP is, then select one HLIP to focus on.
For your final project, you will examine one High Leverage INSTRUCTIONAL Practice (HLIP) in-depth and discuss it in a paper of 8-10 pages in length using APA format.
HLIPs are listed in the HLP resources under these numbers for Instruction: HLPs #11-#22:
HLIP #11: Identify and prioritize Long-term and Short-term goals.
HLIP #12: Systematically design instruction toward a specific learning goal.
HLIP #13: Adapt curriculum tasks and materials toward a specific learning goal.
HLIP #14: Teach cognitive and metacognitive strategies to support learning and independence.
HLIP #15: Provide scaffolded supports.
HLIP #16: Use explicit instruction.
HLIP #17: Use flexible grouping.
HLIP #18: Use strategies to promote active student engagement.
HLIP #19: Use assistive and instructional technologies.
HLIP #20: Provide intensive instruction.
HLIP #21: Teach students to maintain and generalize new learning across time and settings.
HLIP #22: Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students’ learning and behavior.
Once you have done that you will observe its use in a video found on the website below.
After you have completed the observation, you will write an analysis of the HLIP.
Your final paper will include a completed observation protocol (from screening the video; see exception above), a brief analysis of that video, and a paper of 8-10 pages that explore this HLIP addressing the topics detailed below. The paper count includes your one-page Video observation but does not include the title page or bibliography, or observation protocol (your notes).
You will use the High Leverage Practice website, the Touro library, and the IRIS website as resources for this project.
Read the HLP Introduction document(s) on Canvas.
Go to this website: https://highleveragepractices.org. Choose one INSTRUCTIONAL high-leverage practice, one HLIP, to focus on. The only one without a corresponding video on the website is HLP 21. For this use the video found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xU395HgXl2s.
Using the Video Observation form that you have downloaded from Canvas, watch the video and complete an observation of the HLIP in use. You may need to watch the video more than once. Using your observation notes, transfer your notes into a one-page narrative describing what you observed.
Now you are going to research this HLIP in order to answer these questions in a paper of 8-10 pages using academic references from the field of education to support your ideas. The HLP in-depth document is a good place for you to start your research. You must include at least three different academic articles from the Touro library. You will use peer-reviewed educational JOURNALS that have published research on this HLP practice for INSTRUCTION to support your ideas.
Introduction: Describe your HLIP and include when it is appropriate to use this HLIP. Provide at least one academic reference from the TOURO library from a peer-reviewed education journal to support your discussion.
Implications: Discuss the cultural and linguistic issues involved in implementing this strategy. Are there gender considerations? Age? Setting? Provide at least one academic reference (from a peer-reviewed education journal from the Touro Library, that has examined these implications for this INSTRUCTIONAL strategy.
Challenges: Explore the challenges to implementing this HLIP. They may be structural, human, and/or other resources that impede or support its use. Provide one academic reference (from a peer-reviewed education journal from the Touro Library) that has reviewed the challenges to implementing this HLIP.
Effectiveness: Present the way in which the teacher knows that this HLIP is working. Are there recommended ways in which to track these changes? Provide at least one academic reference (from a peer-reviewed education journal from the Touro Library) that has researched the effectiveness of this INSTRUCTIONAL intervention.
Asset-Based Approach: Does this resource take use an asset-based approach to supporting students with disabilities? Why or why not? How could it be modified so that it does? For this you may cite resources from our previous modules including non-peer reviewed sources.
Conclusion: Summarize the HLIP that you have examined in one or two paragraphs. Now provide suggestions for its implementation to other teachers. Finally, discuss whether you would use this HLIP and the aspects of it that appeal or repel you from implementing it in your classroom now or in the future.
An Additional Resource (that does not take the place of a peer-reviewed resource but must still be cited if used!): The IRIS website has excellent, research-based information for educators working with students with special needs.
