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organic moments as naturally and purposefully as possible. In short, simply
mining this book for lesson plans for use in rigid, pre-packaged units is not
what the editors and authors intend. They write (2014):
"In effect, teachers and parents need to create circumstances in which
the equivalent of incidental learning- learning from casual and natural
(but carefully planned) experiences- can occur for children who cannot
easily obtain information through visual observation" (p. 10).
They ask TVIs to walk the line between premeditated and spontaneous,
between authentic and artificial, in order to curate for their students the
richest possible ECC experiences. And we are constantly reminded the
stakes are not low; there is a lot of pressure for TVIs to get this right.
Neglecting the ECC "...can result in a student who does not have the skills to
be competent outside of school, as a child,
adolescent, or adult" (p. 9).
Thankfully, ECC Essentials provides both the theory and practical tools to
support teachers as they thoughtfully navigate their way through a
complicated methodology.
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