Module 12
Capstone Intensive
This is the proof. You take one child or group, 18 months to 10 years, and you write the plan you would actually run: who they are, what you saw, what the weeks will hold, how families stay in it, where you would refer, and how play and relationship never become an afterthought.
You will be able to
- Integrate all ten prior outcomes into one portfolio.
- Write twelve weekly goals mapped to skill themes.
- Show adaptations, family partnership, and referral thinking.
- Reflect on how your philosophy changed.
What the portfolio must hold
1. Profile and assessment. 2. Strengths, needs, sensory, behavior supports. 3. Twelve weekly goals on skill themes. 4. Twelve session sketches with FITT, progressions, adaptations. 5. Family engagement. 6. Red-flag notes if they apply. 7. A reflection on play and relationship.
Open Capstone studio and build it there. Ten minutes of presentation or a written packet — either is complete if the thinking is complete.
- Motor development (Week 2) visible in the goals
- Motor learning (Week 3) visible in the practice design
- Skill themes (Week 4) as the spine
- Sensory (Week 5) and behavior (Week 6) as standing supports
- Play (Week 7) in every session, not a Friday reward
The last question is the first
What will you do differently with a child tomorrow? If you can answer that in a sentence that would make a 4-year-old's afternoon better, the course did its job.
The five books are the foundation. Your practice with real children is where the toolkit comes alive.
Reading notes
First notes of 24+ characters: +10 each.
All five
Review as needed
- Developmental PE — the curriculum spine.
- Motor Learning — how skill is acquired.
- Out-of-Sync Child — the sensory lens.
- No Such Thing as a Bad Kid — the relational stance.
- Play — the engine.
“The best specialists never stop learning, never stop playing, and never stop believing in relationship.”
Lab & assignment
Capstone build
- Complete every tab in Capstone studio.
- Read it out loud. Cut jargon.
- Prepare a 10-minute walkthrough: child, goals, one sample session, one adaptation, one family move, one thing you learned.
Assignment: Capstone portfolio
The seven required pieces. Practical, developmentally honest, inclusive, family-aware, reflective.
Draft 40+ characters to bank +25.
Your notes
What was your biggest shift in philosophy?
Which book changed how you see a child?
What will you keep learning for the next year?
Tomorrow
After twelve weeks, what will you do differently with a child tomorrow?
One honest sentence · +15
Play this week
Small games and puzzles that only use what this module taught. First complete +50; perfect +25.
Floor call
A random objection this week actually raises. Multiple choice. First correct answer banks +20. Shuffle for a new voice.
Week 12 objection
Drawing a live one…
Knowledge check
0/4 correct · 0 answered · +25 each