Success Stories: Using Video Stories to Connect, Communicate, and Create True Success with Your Students

Video Stories provide a research-validated, dynamic teaching tool in which actual video clips of the students performing a skill are combined with all the essential information needed to understand that skill. Once the students see themselves as successful movie stars, they often begin to initiate their new skills right away. Jessica Roberts offers hundreds of ideas for how to use this motivating and powerful strategy to teach Classroom Expectations, Schedules/Routines, Appropriate Behavior, Language Development, Social Skills, Independent Living Skills, and Academic Concepts. This easy-to-follow guidebook will lead you through the process of creating your own Video Stories, with step-by-step visual instructions in Windows Movie Maker, PowerPoint, and iMovie.