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Table 1
Example of a general unit plan within daily living skills that promotes
increasing opportunities for self-regulated learning and application of thinking
and problem-solving.
Start of the Unit
Beginning/Intermediate
Lessons
Advanced Lessons
• With the student,
develop a framework
and goals for cooking
lessons
• Establish basic set-up
for kitchen and
expectations for
participation
• Brainstorm kitchen
concepts and strategies
student knows and
generate questions
student is curious about
•
Recipe selected by
teacher or one of two
choices given the target
specific cooking skills
• Skill development and
problem solving during
cooking modeled and
guided by teacher with
increasing
opportunities for
student to take the lead
on selecting strategies
• Compare and contrast
efficacy of strategies
•
Recipe selected by
student with
rationale for how it
builds toward
accomplishing
established goals
• Student takes lead on
all aspects of the
recipe, employing
strategies (e.g.
figuring out a
measurement
conversion) to solve
problems and
evaluates/monitors
progress
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