This presentation will discuss an educational intervention used in classes for special education students on the autistic spectrum. It entails finding the strengths and weaknesses of a child and building upon these skills in a teaching interaction. This technique can be applied in a general education classroom by identifying educational goals for students and developing specific strategies to help students reach them. Session participants will learn how teachers identify learning objectives, break them down into specific steps and implement a process that will help students achieve the objectives incrementally. This approach can be applied to help students reach both educational and behavioral goals.