Designing and Implementing Meaningful Learning Experiences in Early Intervention
This course focuses on analyzing and interpreting assessment data collaboratively with families and professionals. Learners will demonstrate proficiency using a strengths-based approach to inform eligibility determination, goal setting, intervention planning and progress monitoring. Learners will articulate the purposes of both formal and informal assessments, including ethical and legal considerations and discuss how to select and utilize developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment tools and methods.
This course is fully self-paced, allowing you to begin at any time and move through the content on a schedule that fits your professional commitments. To ensure meaningful application, participants submit key implementation artifacts for personalized facilitator feedback. During twice-monthly review windows, expert facilitators, seasoned practitioners, and leaders in early intervention and ECSE provide detailed, practice-based feedback. Their real-world experience ensures guidance that is both relevant and immediately applicable, while maintaining flexibility within a structured support system.
| Designed For | Teachers and educators |
| Topics | Early intervention |
| Platform | Canvas |
| Source | Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation |
Learning outcomes
- Identify the purposes of formal and informal assessment.
- Critically evaluate assessment tools to ensure they are developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate.
- Use assessment data to develop child and family-based outcomes/goals, plan interventions and instruction and monitor progress.
- Collaborate with families and other team members to ensure everyone's input is valued in developing goals.
