today I just want to talk about how I try and make learning more fun and also
how I try and make my own goals more fun the most popular Halloween costume for
this past year for women to be was our little girls today was a cat
it was Wonder Woman so everyone wanted to be Wonder Woman
you know everyone everyone loves Wonder Woman well if a kid wants to be a
superhero let them be a superhero give them
superpowers so I had the kids within like the first week of school they got
to create their own superhero so they did a little drawing like what kind of
superpowers you have like oh you can shoot lasers out his eyes all right I
was like but what if your superhero could get rid of homework and they'd be
like oh like yeah like I don't want to do homework yeah of course you don't
want to do homework but you know what how did your superheroes gonna use this
power like we have to build up his strength so he can use his power
Wow well if you have if you're using materials correctly like today if you
are keeping your hands to yourself if you are showing up to class on time if
you're doing these certain things your superhero will gain strength and then
like let's just say you earn your your superhero gained 50 points today you
know next week you know you can use a superpower or get rid of homework on
Friday you don't have to do that what I like to do is like to think of something
that we need them to do something that they want to do and how if we meet in
the middle for like a learner trying to learn the letters and they enjoy
coloring so you just combine the two they have to color a specific letter and
then as they're calling it a go what letter is that
H all right Co keep on keep on and just go back and forth and you kind of like
cements that love it yeah yeah awesome do you do you kind of purposely
interrupt it make a response and then have them finish I'll just just copy
typically don't stop or if they can respond and keep going at the same time
so if they're calling to like oh my god like oh this is a chore sometimes
they'll stop and just respond I think go right back to it yeah so when you do set
your own goal as an accomplishment or you set goals for someone else like a
learner when they accomplish them you have to quickly figure out what's the
next step so that means the learner I had in the school in Mullica Township
before I had to create a system where he would always get a post reinforcement
pause when he would earn the reinforcer which was walking around the school and
then right when he got back to the classroom after he earned and you were
like all proud he'd flop and not cross the threshold and not come back into the
classroom because he got what he wanted to watch he'd go back to the classroom
so what I had to do was create a second reinforcer so that he had a reason to
come back in the classroom so he would earn and but what I told him is that as
soon as he crosses the threshold after he already earned his walk and comes
back instead of flopping if he crosses the threshold comes back in the
classroom he could pick out of a hat and there was like a 4 out of 5 chance like
4 cards in there and 4 out of 5 said take another walk so he was able to earn
another walk four out of five times that meant about 80% of the time he was
earning a walk so then it got rid of the push reinforcement pause so he was
already in the classroom so if he picked the one card that said no walk he was
already in there he just started working getting ready to earn his next one then
we faded it so he had to cross the threshold and three out of five cards
said take a walk too said no no walk and then we faded that to two out of five
and then soon he no longer had a post reinforcement pause it could be one out
of every five cards that he got a second walk back to back so to avoid a post
reinforcement pause or that letdown after involves accomplished and a
reinforcer has been obtained you have to think of a variable schedule something
right after
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