Why Prompt Hierarchy Is So Important
Why Prompt Hierarchy Is So Important Ultimately, our jobs are to promote independence. By providing too much support, we are not promoting independence - and worse, students may even become prompt-dependent. As a special education classroom teacher or case manager, it is our job to make sure all members of our team (e.g. paraeducators, support staff) are consistent in moving from least invasive prompting to most, with the ultimate goal of fading that support over time. Least Invasive to Most Invasive Verbal Gestural Model Partial Physical Full Physical Another important point is that the prompt level should be included in student IEP data. I like to make an extra row or column where staff record the level of prompting. (Of course if there is ANY prompting - unless indicated in the goal criteria - this would be a negative or minus in student data, as the student is not performing the skill independently.) Below is a sample data sheet with prompt data included: I also make su...