Classroom Techniques: Preuiorkshop Skills for the Trainable: A Sequential Technique

Task analysis, or the reduction of a new learning to its smallest component parts, is demonstrated here through application to a series of problems intended to prepare trainable mentally retarded children for success in sheltered workshop activities. The purpose of the analysis is (a) to enable the teacher to teach by suitably small steps, and (b) to aid in locating a specific problem when a child encounters difficulty.