Teaching Appropriate Protests

Strong ABA clinicians need more than the ability to follow a procedure. They also need clinical judgment to recognize when a situation calls for flexibility, ask thoughtful questions, and make decisions that reflect the individual learner. In supervision, our job is to help staff ...  Show more

As BCBAs, it can be tempting to step in, answer every question, and fix problems ourselves. We want to support our staff, protect our learners, and maintain high-quality services. But when we step in too quickly or too often, we can unintentionally create dependence instead of bu ...  Show more

As I noted in the last episode it is important that we teach skills that serve the function of the behavior from our functional behavior assessment (FBA).  However, only teaching those skills is wasting a lot of the information that our FBA gained for us.  Based on our ABC data a ...  Show more

In this episode, Jack talks about language related to protests and protesters. You can read the transcript for this episode and complete the language activity on the page for this podcast on the Learn English Vocabulary website.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsP ...  Show more

Attention-seeking behavior is a common challenge in classrooms, and addressing it effectively is crucial for the overall learning environment. One possible reason for this attention-seeking behavior is that some of our students do not yet have the effective communication to gain ...  Show more

Teachers often ask to what extent they should be responsible for teaching challenging material in the classroom, for example topics such as sex, sexuality, racism, politics, religion and economic inequality. Given that in most teaching situations, teachers will have to teach diff ...  Show more