1. Teacher's Skill Level - Engagement & Play

Knows a basic range of toys, games, and activities and can engage children through play. Begins identifying children's interests, preferences, and motivators.

Often, teachers at this level are not yet aware of:

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2. Teacher's Skill Level - Visual & Communication Support: 

Understands that children with needs may need visual schedules, choice boards, AAC, gestures, pictures, and other communication supports. Can use basic visual supports with guidance.

-> Guided/Trained by a Edu-Team member "Vocational Training"

3 Teacher's Skill Level - 3 - Early Childhood Support

. The teacher can independently support younger children with play, communication, routines, attention, transitions, and basic learning activities. Begins understanding developmental differences.

4 Teacher's Skill Level - 4 - Structured Intervention Techniques

Understands and applies specific teaching approaches (EBP)

 such as PECS, prompting, fading, reinforcement, task analysis, visual schedules, and structured teaching.

5 Teacher's Skill Level - 5 - Disability Knowledge & Ages

Understands different support needs associated with ASD and other developmental or learning differences. 

Knows that intervention should be individualized rather than based only on diagnosis or "ASD level."

Begins selecting evidence-based practices (EBPs) according to the learner's needs.

6 Teacher's Skill Level - 6 - Across Ages & Lesson Planning

Can work with younger children, school-age students, adolescents, and learners developing functional or independence skills. Plans lessons with clear objectives, teaching steps, materials, prompting strategies, and expected outcomes.

7 Teacher's Skill Level - 7 - Data-Based Teaching

Makes teaching decisions using observable data rather than intuition alone. Can measure independence, prompting, accuracy, duration, frequency, generalization, and progress, then modify teaching based on the results.

8 Teacher's Skill Level - 8 - Resource & Strategy Mastery

Knows and can appropriately select from 200+ teaching materials, activities, intervention strategies, visual supports, and adaptations. Can modify resources for different developmental levels, abilities, interests, and goals rather than simply presenting activities unchanged.

9 Teacher's Skill Level - 9 - Comprehensive IEP Development

Can write a professional, individualized IEP based on age, developmental profile, assessment, functional needs, family priorities, educational requirements, and available evidence. Creates measurable goals, baselines, teaching strategies, data criteria, and review points.

10 Teacher's Skill Level - 10 - Comprehensive Intervention Practitioner

Can integrate communication, academics, behaviour support, social development, independence, sensory/OT-informed strategies, life skills, and inclusion into one coherent intervention approach. Understands when and why to use different techniques, evaluates outcomes continuously, and avoids simply reacting to immediate behaviour or demands. Teaching is designed to produce long-term independence, communication, participation, generalization, and quality-of-life outcomes.

10-20+ years Teacher's Skill Level

There are many aspects of teaching can still be achieved in the next 10 or even 20 years... 

This timeline shows that learning never stops. Also for teachers. 

The school and educational system must keep improving itself if we wish our children to have a better future.