Behavior Technician Learning Series: Establishing Instructional Control Training
Effectively Supervising Behavior Technicians Training
With: Angela Farley, LMSW, BCBA
Date: July 19, 2019
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Location: The Guidance Center, Center for Excellence, 13111 Allen Road, Southgate, MI 48195
Suggested Participants: Behavior Technicians, CLS Workers, other professionals working with the ASD population
Continuing Education Credits: 3 Continuing Education Credits are offered for this event. Participants must arrive on time and remain in the training for its entirety to receive credits. No partial credits will be offered. You must have your license number when you check in.
Training Information:
Establishing instructional control refers to the process of developing a trusting working relationship with the children and adolescents that we teach. Having instructional control allows us to provide a direction to a child and have them emit a correct response (Schramm 2006). The first step of establishing instructional control is pairing ourselves with reinforcement. Once the child develops a learning history of accessing reinforcement when they come into contact with us we will be able to effectively teach the child new skills. This training is intended to teach trainee’s how to establish instructional control with new learners and maintain instructional control throughout the teaching process.
Course Objectives:
1. Learners will be able to identify the steps of how to pair themselves with reinforcement to establish instructional control.
2. Learners will be able to identify and utilize various antecedent and consequent interventions to maintain instructional control when working 1:1 with children and when in a group setting.
3. Learners will be able to quickly identify the four functions of behavior and how to quickly teach a replacement behavior in the moment.
1. Review Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing Procedure, Brief review of Preference Assessments, and Important Qualities for Reinforcers (30 minutes)
2. Learn the PRIDE skills and how to implement into pairing process (30 minutes)
3. How to give effective demands, identifying functions of problem behavior, teaching replacement behaviors, and errorless learning (60 minutes)
4. Review various schedules of reinforcement (continuous schedules, intermittent schedules, differential reinforcement schedules and extinction) (30 minutes)
5. Utilize antecedent modifications (behavioral momentum, first/then, timers, visual schedules) and consequent interventions (token systems, group contingencies) (30 minutes
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If you have individual requirements or need special services to participate in this training, please notify Sabrina Bergman at (313) 344-9099 or Sbergman@dwmha.com. Please make arrangements at least two weeks before the event date.
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