Second Edition TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC: An Activities Based Curriculum for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
The Second Edition of The TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC is written for fellow Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVIs). The second edition includes many of the activities found within the first edition and additional activities and topic areas for teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum. The activities continue to be age-neutral and multi-sensory and therefore can meet the needs of the broad range of students served on a TVI's caseload. The activities can be individualized to the students various learning modalities and scaffold to challenge students and ensure success. Select those activities that align with the student’s learning objects based on the student’s unique visual needs and academic and developmental level.
The second edition includes ECC activities that can be adapted to each thematic unit. These include the following activity areas:
- Object Concepts
- Quantity & Number Concepts
- Time Concepts
- Tactile Graphics
- Braille Code
- Braille Literacy
- Reading Fluency
- Writing Efficiency
- Tactual Efficiency
- Developing Skillful Hands
- Visual Efficiency
- Optical Device Instruction
- Listening Skills
- Recipe Activities
- Body Awareness
- Spatial Concepts
- Gross Motor & Search Patterns
- Career & Vocational
Additional ECC activities are located within each of the 32 Thematic Units. With more than 700 unique activities, you will have more than enough activities to meet each student's needs throughout the year. These units are cyclical and can be used repeatedly to help students build on prior knowledge and develop a deeper understanding of concepts. Each unit includes suggestions for activity adaptation associated with the thematic unit. These include lists of objects, possible community-based experiences (field trips), environmental print, poems, scripture, jokes, children & young reader books, children's songs, pop culture songs, movies, and websites.
Although the intended audience of this resource is fellow Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, special education teachers may find these activities beneficial to the students in their classrooms as the activities are multisensory and include life skills and concepts needed by all students. However, this resource is not intended to replace a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI). Readers are advised to consult their own TVIs regarding instruction in the ECC and the unique visual needs of the students served in their programs.
Note: This curriculum is a digital pdf download. Once you make your purchase you will be directed to an order confirmation page where you will find the download link. This download will also be included on the receipt sent to the email address you provide. The pdf download can be found directly under the order number.
Each download is intended for single instructor use per copyright. Thank you for helping me preserve the content and not distributing copies to third parties.
Product details
Digital pdf download: 453 pages (11 pt font), fully accessible
Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
Author: Carmen Willings
Language: English
*Please contact me if you need to purchase using a purchase order. I am happy to help guide you in the process of adding Teaching Students with Visual Impairments as an approved vendor for your school or program or you can visit the product support page for information on using a PO.
