Natural Environment Teaching: Letting Your Silly Goose Loose. matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Colorado Association for Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →There are several teaching methods that RBTs can utilize while implementing direct services with their clients, including discrete trial teaching, chaining, and natural environment teaching. Natural environment teaching (NET) involves incorporating the learner's immediate environment and current motivation to teach a multitude of skills while promoting maintenance and generalization. In this workshop, RBTs will get hands-on experience practicing the ability to get creative and playful while targeting skills that they may commonly see in treatment programs for their learners. They will receive modeling, in-the-moment feedback, and opportunities to role play with partners as they let loose and embrace their inner silly goose.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 0 | — |
| COA | 1.5 | — |
Rachel has been a board certified behavior analyst since 2020 after graduating with a Masters of Science from Auburn University, and has been in the field of behavior analysis since starting as a registered behavior technician in 2016. Prior to landing in the field of ABA, Rachel learned about the principles of behavior while studying at America’s Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College, applying positive reinforcement techniques and individualized programming with exotic animals, including small mammals, mountain lions, lemurs, birds, and a water buffalo. Originally from California, she found herself in the heart of the plains after a wild leap of faith and a lot of encouragement from friends to exit her comfort zone. During her graduate program, she served foster youth and families across East Alabama and taught important life and transition skills to adjudicated youth. More recently, she has served clients in homes and schools across the states of Georgia and now Colorado, provided fieldwork supervision and mentorship to graduate students, and collaborated with leaders in the field nationwide to disseminate the science of behavior and push analysts' clinical skills towards compassionate and neurodiversity affirming practices. She currently serves as an assistant clinical director for clinic-based services in Colorado Springs. When she’s not being a BCBA, she is a pet parent, sweatpants enthusiast, reality TV connoisseur, and life-long learner. She has also hosted a podcast making ABA principles relatable to everyday life, human behavior, and of course, reality TV. She is passionate about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Training, values-based service delivery, and increasing compassionate care in the field of ABA.
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.