Fundamental Skill Sheets

Whether you’re new to the classroom or a seasoned veteran, it never hurts to take some time to brush up on the basic instructional and behavioral skills and practices that form the foundations of effective classroom management and instruction. That’s where our fundamental skill sheets come in.

Practical and informative, these resources from IRIS are user-friendly and designed to give you the tools you need to improve your instruction right now. Every fundamental skill sheet includes the following components:

What Is It?
What Do We Know About This Skill/Practice?
Procedures
Tips for Implementation
Things To Keep in Mind
Implementation Examples (including elementary and high school video examples)
Foundational Research & References

Click the links below to view the IRIS Fundamental Skill Sheets.

Active Supervision
Behavior-Specific Praise
Choice Making
High-Probability Requests
Proximity Control
Virtual Instruction: Behavior-Specific Praise
Virtual Instruction: Precorrection
Wait-Time