21 Tips for Trainers: Ci3T Professional Learning Leaders

If you are leading professional learning efforts in your district, here are a few suggestions for how you might use this module:

Ideas for Inspiration!

As a Ci3T Trainer, consider using this module to provide professional learning on the multiple uses of precorrection:

• used classwide as a Tier 1 strategy
  
• used as a stand-alone Tier 2 intervention
  
• added to other Tier 2 interventions
  
• added as a component of a Tier 3 intervention

When building your district- or school-site professional learning offerings for the year, consider how you will provide a range of professional learning offering for: Ci3T Leadership Teams, faculty and staff, administrators, and family members. You might consider reviewing the table of contents of resources at the beginning of this module to familiarize yourself with the various elements available in this module designed for various stakeholders.

Then, you could use materials and ideas from this module to provide district-wide professional learning on precorrection for a range of stakeholders. Providing this coordinated professional learning may offer several benefits. First, consistent and coordinated professional learning supports common learning and resources across schools, which helps from a standpoint of ensuring equal access to quality supports regardless of what school a student attends. Second, it creates a common language and skillset amongst teachers and families in your district. Third, it establishes efficiency so that all district-provided professional learning is well-aligned to each school’s plan, and that school-based professional learning can focus on expanding, differentiating, re-iterating, and re-teaching skills taught during district professional learning.

For example, a district-wide professional learning session could teach the steps using materials contained in this module; then, school-based professional learning could go deeper on steps where teachers feel they need additional training, or instructional coaches could provide feedback and support to teachers working to implement this strategy. When using materials from this module, some can be edited to include district-specific information (e.g., entry/exit criteria) when using precorrection as a Tier 2 support. However, we encourage you to not edit the descriptions of the steps (i.e., the steps explained in this eBook and in the associated implementation checklist) to maintain continuity in how the intervention is taught and to ensure alignment to intervention materials. It is also less burdensome for teachers and families if the materials are standardized (e.g., avoid creating new materials that require additional time and explanation).