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Event-Based Teaching
Advancing the Essential for Living Curriculum and Assessment through Event-Based Teaching. Learn to design and deliver meaningful, in-context instruction across the full day.
What is Event-Based Teaching?
Since its emergence from the Essential For Living (EFL) framework, Event-Based Teaching (EBT) has extended EFL's quality-of-life orientation by organizing instruction around meaningful, naturally occurring events rather than isolated skills or academic sequences.
Grounded in the same evidence-based teaching and measurement principles that define EFL, EBT provides practitioners with a practical system for identifying teachable moments, embedding instruction into daily routines, and evaluating progress based on functional outcomes that matter to the individual.
Within the Essential for Living Practitioner's Handbook, readers will find that both authors Dr. Patrick McGreevy and Troy Fry recommend that teaching essential skills occurs within events.
The Story
About ten years ago, Kristina Montgomery and Emily Beal Wilkinson began their journey to bring events to the classrooms they worked in, within their special education setting. They began with creating spaces in their classrooms to practice skills in context and continually problem-solved and experimented until they arrived where they are today.
If you have felt stuck in your practice, wondering how to help learners acquire meaningful skills they will need for the rest of their lives, without frustrating them, this course is for you.
If you have a self-contained classroom with complex learners who span a spectrum of skills, this course will help you understand how to create groups with learner profiles to advance skills at the pace of the students, all the while considering their happiness indicators and their Quality of Life.
What's Included
9.5 BACB® Learning CEUs
Comprehensive continuing education units with all 4 Ethics CEUs included.
Breakout Sessions
Hands-on role play and interactive breakout sessions to practice what you learn.
Bonus Interview Content
Exclusive interviews with EFL leaders providing additional insights and perspectives.
Teaching Skills in Context
Learn to weave skill-stacking into everyday experiences so learning feels natural and meaningful.
Learner Profiles & Grouping
Create effective groups with learner profiles to advance skills at each student’s pace.
Quality of Life Focus
Design instruction that considers happiness indicators and improves the Quality of Life for each learner.
What People Are Saying
Since attending, I’ve been more intentional about how I design and deliver learning activities. I’ve focused on weaving skill-stacking seamlessly into everyday experiences so we can target multiple skills at once without it feeling forced or overly instructional.
Haley Fellows, BCBA
Portland, OR
This is the best way to implement and for individuals of all ages to learn in a more contextually appropriate way. I have created a few learner trees for our kiddos so that staff can more easily take data on programs.
Suzy Moore, BCBA
South Carolina
Such an amazing workshop — thank you all for putting this together and for pushing me to think about event-based teaching in a whole new way!
Sarah McCarthy, BCBA
Newfoundland, CA
Ready to Get Started?
Click below to get started on your journey of teaching meaningful skills in context. Here's to improving the Quality of Life of each of your learners!
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