Teacher and learner as partners: Designing instruction as a dance between teacher and learner with assent at each step belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter classrooms, school meetings, data review, and staff consultation. In Teacher and learner as partners: Designing instruction as a dance between teacher and learner with assent at each step, for this course, the practical stakes show up in feasible school-based support, stronger collaboration, and better student participation, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Behavior analysts who have embraced the concept of assent have expressed the need for practical guidance in adjusting their service delivery model to reflect this philosophy. In addition, analysts and other stakeholders, such as teachers and parents, have raised concerns that an assent-based teaching model creates an environment in which learners can simply opt not to participate and thus make no progress toward their instruction goals. Rather than focusing on opting in or out, we will model how to give learners opportunities to assent to each component of the teaching process and make in-the-moment adjustments that result in the learner choosing to participate with as little coercion as possible. This presentation will include designing a teaching context that embeds assent within each component of the teaching trial—the setup of the physical environment, the presentation of the attending SD and the delivery of reinforcement—and embedding them within behavior chains that capitalize on reinforcement efficiency.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 2 | General |
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