The Video Futures Start Up Kit is an innovative tool useful for students with and without disabilities. This kit was developed to prevent student dropout, build skills in a variety of areas, and help students gain employment. With the recent advances in video technology its application to the classroom is becoming more widespread. The Kit illustrates how to use video technology to create powerful interventions that can be easily applied by teachers, speech therapists, and other school personnel. One important element of the intervention is Video Self Modeling or, Video Feedforward, which uses positive self-images to help students develop specific skills-and create behaviors that do not currently exist, increase self-confidence, improve self-image, apply classroom skills to the real world, and reduce the fear of failure. Another intervention strategy included in the kit is Video-Based Futures Planning. This strategy is a specific application of video self modeling that assists young adults in creating a vision of their future.
The Video Futures Start Up Kit includes [a DVD (PAL or NTSC) or VHS tapes (NTSC only)]:
- Start Up Booklet: How to use the Kit and basic management of Video Futures in your school or community-based program.
- Creating Video Futures: A Guide to Self Modeling and Related Procedures
- Video Futures Start Up Kit DVD: The Video Futures Project (introductory video), Self Model Tapes (by teachers, speech therapists, and clinicians), How to Make a Self Modeling Video (training video), and Video-Based Personal Futures Plans
- Feedforward and self modeling chapter from Peter W. Dowrick’s out of print Practical Guide to Using Video in the Behavioral Sciences textbook
- Self-determination activities
- Selected articles
- Case studies and data samples