ILTS School Social Worker (184) study plan

Map Domain 4's 25% weight to direct-service task clusters-individual counseling, group work, crisis response, IEP/504 social-work services, progress monitoring-and write a one-page coverage audit naming your three strongest and three weakest clusters.

Draft a six-session individual counseling sequence for a hypothetical middle-school student with school refusal, specifying target behaviors, theoretical frame, session objectives, and one data source per session.

Construct a crisis-response checklist for a suicidal-ideation disclosure covering immediate safety, notification, documentation, family engagement, and re-entry planning.

Record two 10-minute role-play segments-one individual and one group counseling segment-and self-score them on a five-point rubric for empathy, open questions, goal focus, and documentation prompts.

Analyze three hypothetical case vignettes-anxiety, truancy, and bullying-and select a primary intervention modality for each, justifying the choice with developmental and ecological fit.

Build a 12-item assessment matrix comparing a broadband behavior rating scale, a brief emotional-screening measure, a suicide-risk screener, attendance data, an FBA, and at least two other data sources on age range, respondent, psychometric strength, and school feasibility.

Draft an FBA-informed behavior intervention plan for one vignette with an operational definition, baseline, function hypothesis, replacement behavior, and two progress-monitoring metrics.

Write three measurable IEP social-work goals for the same case, each including baseline, target, criterion, measurement method, and review schedule.

Sequence a complete assessment-to-intervention cycle for a referred student: referral question, consent, data triangulation, eligibility considerations, intervention selection, progress monitoring, and exit criteria.

Compare IDEA, Section 504, MTSS, and IEP social-work service delivery on eligibility, documentation, and the school social worker's role in a one-page table.

Diagram the school social worker's role across Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3, listing two concrete activities and one data source per tier.

Score a 30-item practice set on assessment and eligibility; log every miss by error type-knowledge gap, misread, or reasoning error-and write a correction note for each.

Explain aloud, without notes, the ecological and historical foundations of school social work-person-in-environment, systems thinking, strengths perspective, and MTSS-in a 10-minute recorded summary.

Build a developmental quick-reference for ages 5–18 covering cognitive, social-emotional, language, and family-context markers, and flag three implications for intervention selection.

Apply one learning theory-behavioral, social-cognitive, or constructivist-to a classroom-based social-work intervention and write a 300-word rationale linking theory to strategy.

Sort 20 mixed practice items by domain and subtopic, then identify your two lowest-yield subtopics and one resource to re-teach each.