Widening our Behavior Analytic Lens to Improve Outcomes for Educational Professionals is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of school teams and classroom routines. In Widening our Behavior Analytic Lens to Improve Outcomes for Educational Professionals, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Jade Health
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Join Free →In this session, Dr. Pennington will shine a behavior analytic lens on some of the complexities of supporting educational professionals in public school settings. He will offer guidance on the role of the behavioral practitioners in schools and several strategies for navigating barriers in doing behavior analytic work alongside and with professionals from other disciplines. Further, he will describe several strategies for facilitating teacher behavior change. He will use humor and personal anecdotes from his 30 years of working in schools to help behavioral practitioners find joy and success in learning and serving in schools.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| QABA | 0 | — |
| IBAO | 1 | — |
| BICC | 0 | — |
Robert Pennington PhD, BCBA-D is an Associate Professor and the Lake and Edward J Snyder, Jr. Distinguished Scholar in Special Education. He has over 25 years of experience working with individuals with disabilities, their families and teachers. His primary research interests are in the application of behavior analytic principles and procedures to the development of written communication repertoires and the improvement of educational programming for students with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. He contributes regularly to the research and practitioner literature in both areas. Robert is passionate about both serving his community and the dissemination of research-based practice and has provided hundreds of refereed and invited presentations to researchers, practitioners, and families and has contributed as a member of numerous journal editorial and advisory boards.
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