School’s Out for COVID-19: 50 Ways BCBA Trainees in Special Education Settings Can Accrue Independent Fieldwork Experience Hours During the Pandemic

Fronapfel et al. (2020) wrote a how-to list for BCBA trainees stuck at home.

Schools closed for COVID-19, so the authors gave 50 ways to keep earning fieldwork hours.

Ideas cover both restricted and unrestricted tasks that can be done online or at home.

The paper is a menu, not an experiment.

It shows trainees can still watch sessions, coach parents, and write behavior plans from home.

No data are reported; the goal is simply to keep hours moving forward during lock-downs.

Simmons et al. (2021) later asked trainees if virtual supervision actually works.

They found high satisfaction but still a drop in direct client hours—so the 50 ideas may not fully replace in-person experience.

Garza et al. (2018) gave pre-COVID supervision tools; Fronapfel’s list updates those tools for remote use.

Mattson et al. (2020) show how to turn any in-person lesson into a digital one, giving trainees concrete tasks to count from the 50-item list.

You can hand this list to any trainee who loses site access.

Pick one remote activity—like coaching a parent over Zoom—and log it as unrestricted hours today.