Once the skill is performed accurately and independently under one condition, are you arranging multiple opportunities for the student to practice the skill with different people, and in multiple settings?
GO SLOW! Multiple opportunities with short and simple projects with one peer are ideal. Realistically, using different peers in the collaborative process is going to be necessary. Your careful choice of peers who are less likely to antagonize, to respond defensively to target student errors in the process, or to avoid working collaboratively is a key. The student needs to practice the process with peers that seem likely to end up in helping fields, who are attuned to human relationships, who have a knack for helping. These are your ideal peers to involve in collaboration. Deal later with collaboration with peers who have their own issues in collaborating!
Are you arranging opportunities for the student to practice the targeted skill in natural environments and under natural conditions?
You have noticed by now that we encourage the teaching of this skill in natural circumstances of cooperative projects. Think about the variety of natural conditions that you have available. There are club projects, school projects, class assignments and class projects that all require collaboration. How will you look to generalize the use of these supports in adult environments? A simple collaborative plan can be quite helpful and appropriate in various volunteer settings, in job training situations or in job placements. If collaborative planning and/or problem solving are targets at school, are you aware of extracurricular projects, volunteer settings and job training sites where you can encourage the use of the systems and supports needed in those settings?
Have you adapted visual supports so that they can remain in the natural environments that this student encounters now, and in the future?
Hopefully, as you develop a planning process, think about how this might look in a retail setting, in a restaurant, in an office setting where the student works with others on a project. Will the steps of your system apply in future settings?
Are you collecting data to make adjustments to your teaching and to ensure that the student is performing the skill across multiple conditions?