Note: Created for the 2024-25 school year. The updated 2025-26 is on the MSB website.
What is ECC?
Expanded Core Curriculum is used to define concepts and skills that often require specialized instruction with students who are blind or visually impaired in order to compensate for decreased opportunities to learn incidentally by observing others, as explained by TSBVI. I have created videos for each area linked below.
A Moment of Outreach: The Expanded Core Curriculum.
Nine Areas of the ECC
- Orientation and Mobility (O&M)
- Self-Determination
- Independent Living Skills
- Social Interaction Skills
- Career Education
- Compensatory Skills
- Assistive Technology
- Sensory Efficiency
- Recreation and Leisure
I have created pages for all of the areas of the ECC as a monthly TVI Challenge. Each month I will send out a one pager with vocabulary, activities, and experiences for each teacher to use as a lesson and more.
In addition, I wanted to share the parent/at home calendar to go along with the TVI monthly challenge. I want to clarify that these pages aren’t single lesson plans, they are idea pages to get areas of the ECC infused into instruction, it may take more than a month to do everything on them and that is okay! It’s about having a way to direct your ECC instruction and time with your students.
If a TVI does any part of these monthly challenges, they will have covered every area of the ECC during the school year and that is a win!
Join in the challenge and win prizes. Visit the Maryland School for the Blind TVI Portal to more information and to enter.
ECC Monthly Challenges
- Self Determination is October’s ECC Focus Challenge
- Independent Living Skills November’s ECC Challenge
- Social Skills is December’s ECC Focus Challenge
- Career Education is January’s ECC Focus Challenge
- Compensatory Access Skills is February’s ECC Focus Challenge
- Assistive Technology is March’s ECC Focus Challenge
- Sensory Efficiency is April’s ECC Focus Challenge
- Recreation and Leisure is May’s ECC Focus Challenge
