Teaching · Special Education

Teach the routine one step at a time.

List the steps of handwashing, a coat or a lunch container and the help each step needs today. The organizer picks the step to teach next for your method and the prompt to fade to.

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The routine record

One record per student, routine and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
The share of steps done independently, the step to teach next for your chaining method, the prompt to fade to and a step-by-step list for the team.
Who it is for
Special education teachers, occupational therapists and paraprofessionals teaching self-care routines at school.
Format
Browser form. One saved record per student and date; printed with the summary or as a blank task-analysis form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
20one step at a time, then the whole routine
Drawn for this page. Self-care routines are taught step by step, with help that steps down and practice in more than one place.

How to use it

  1. Choose the routine and the teaching method you and the therapist agreed on.
  2. Write each step in order, one action each.
  3. Watch the routine and record the least help each step needed.
  4. Teach the step named, fading the prompt as it holds.
  5. Copy the record to a new date and record again.

Start a routine

How the next step is chosen

The three methods

Forward chaining teaches the first step the student cannot yet do and helps with the rest. Backward chaining helps with everything up to the last untaught step, so the student always finishes the routine. Whole task has the student try every step every time.

The prompt scale

From least to most help: gesture, verbal, model, partial physical, full physical. Teams order the middle levels differently; use the order your team uses and keep it the same across records.

What this is not

An occupational therapy evaluation. It records what the student did at school on the day observed.

Sources

  1. Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied Behavior Analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson: task analysis and forward, backward and total-task chaining.
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Clean Hands: when and how to wash your hands (scrub for at least 20 seconds).
  3. American Occupational Therapy Association, Occupational therapy in school settings: activities of daily living.
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.39(b)(3) and 300.34(c)(6): specially designed instruction and occupational therapy.

The example student is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.