Essential Video: Incidental Teaching
Watch Matt Wiley’s five-minute demonstration of incidental teaching. Notice how the learner initiates, how the adult prompts communication, and how the requested outcome follows.
Follow your supervisor’s plan for brief teaching opportunities. Respect communication in all its forms, requests for help or a break, and signs of frustration. Do not make every preferred activity inaccessible or withhold essential needs to create teaching opportunities.
Optional Reading
Florida Atlantic University: Incidental Teaching Factsheet
This factsheet describes environmental arrangements and prompting. Its advice about restricting access and withholding items should not be applied as a blanket rule. Follow the individualized plan, respect the learner’s communication, and discuss concerns with your supervisor.
Conversation Exercise
Use FRED to rehearse explaining a natural teaching opportunity and asking your supervisor about an unclear instruction. Use a fictional example without identifying learner information.
Reflection Exercise
In 100-500 words, describe an everyday opportunity to help a learner communicate about something they want. Using the lesson and video, explain how you would notice their interest, follow the planned prompt or brief wait, and provide the requested outcome. Include how you would respond if they seemed frustrated or wanted to stop, and one question you would take to your supervisor.
Use your own example and thoughts. You may write in any language. Grammar and spelling are not assessed. The optional reading is not required.
If you use AI to brainstorm or improve your wording, keep the reflection personal and add a sentence explaining how you used it.
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