PODCASTS: Updates to the Precision Teaching Podcasts are now in the sidebar

Just a quick FYI to let you know that listings of the Precision Teaching Podcasts, hosted by Rick Kubina and Doug Kostewicz, can now be found in the sidebar of this blog, along with other updates from the Standard Celeration Society, and various Precision Teaching and Behavior Analysis blogs (If you fire up a new PT or ABA blog, or have one that you think should be added to the blogroll, please give a shout in the comments section, and I'll add it. Thanks!).

This is automatically set up to update when new additions come on, so if you want to know what's new and happening--check out the sidebar. Cheers.

Related post
May 4, 2009
ANNOUNCE: Precision Teaching Podcasts at iTunes

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OPPORTUNITY: Hingham, MA Summer Programs at The Fluency Factory

Also see the previous post on Summer programming available at Morningside Academy in Seattle, WA.

Summer is upon us, and we see that The Fluency Factory (Director: Richard McManus) in Hingham, Massachusetts is offering special Summer programs during the time when kids are out of school, as well as the usual tutoring services offered year round. Richard and his crew are excellent teachers, period, as well as seasoned Precision Teachers and have helped many children with learning difficulties become more successful students.

The Fluency Factory is located at
165 Beal Street, Hingham, MA 02043

Richard (back row center) and his posse of Precision Teachers,
in front of The Fluency Factory, Summer 2006

See also,

• Articles by Richard McManus
  Topics in Learning and Education, and Kidding Around Articles
  
  
• Richard McManus interview at the Precision Teaching podcast
  Previous post on the podcasts
  Friday February 27, 2009. Interviewer, Rick Kubina

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SHOUT-OUT for Precision Teaching in Europe

This meeting of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Group is over for the year, but I'm posting so that you can see what was presented, perhaps be inspired to attend or present next year, and to give a laudatory shout-out for the work in Precision Teaching being done in Europe.

It's stated that a Special Issue of the European Journal of Behavior Analysis (EJOBA) will be dedicated to the Meeting.

Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group
London Meeting: 6– 8 April, 2009
Provisional programme
Department of Psychology, University College of London

Those presentations emphasizing Precision Teaching,

POSTERS 4/6/09
What’s the probability of that: using SAFMEDS to increase fluency on statistical concepts with undergraduate psychology students.
Michael Beverley, Carl Hughes, & Richard Hastings, Bangor University

Fluency, Syllables and Reading Skills: the case of an Italian girl with autism
Francesca Cavallini, Federica Berardo, Sara Andolfi & Fabiola Casarini, University of Parma, Centro Tice,

Endurance and application in young basketball players: effects of fluency in dribbling
Francesca Cavallini, Roberto Cattivelli & Silvia Perini, University of Parma

4/6/09
Symposium: Precision Teaching
Chair: Dr. CARL HUGHES

2:00 Using precision teaching strategies to promote self-management of inner behaviours and measuring effects on the symptoms of depression.
Kerry Patterson & Claire McDowell
University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

2:20 Using precision teaching to increase the fluency of reading with Italian problem readers. FRANCESCA CAVALLINI, Sara Andolfi, Laura Pignoli & Silvia Perini
University of Parma, Centro Tice

2:40 The effects of fluency on handwriting legibility and orthography.
FRANCESCA CAVALLINI, Federica Berardo, Sara Andolfi, Tirelli Valentina & Silvia Perini!
University of Parma, Centro Tice

3:00 Increasing Basic Skills in Maths Using Precision Teaching and Fluency Based Instruction
MICHAEL BEVERLEY, Carl Hughes, & Richard Hastings,
Bangor University, Wales

FULL DAY WORKSHOP (9:00 – 4:00) 4/8/09
Introduction to using Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting in Early Intervention programmes
Dr Claire McDowell 1, Nicola Hardy 2, Dr. J. Carl Hughes, BCBA 3 & Mike Beverley 3
University of Ulster, Coleraine 1,
Saplings School for Children with Autism 2,
Mullingar & Wales Centre for Behaviour Analysis, School of Psychology, Bangor University 3.

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See also,
Behavior Analysis in Europe: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the European Association for Behaviour Analysis, Milan, 18th - 21st July, 2006. Roberto Truzoli, Geraldine Leaders, Phil Reed (Eds.). Editrice UNI Service. 83 pp.
Google books Worldcat

• p.17 WORKSHOP: Introduction to Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting
• p. 36, Precision Teaching and Fluency Training Across Cognitive, Physical, and Academic Tasks in Children with Different Disabilities: A Multiple Baseline Study. From SYMPOSIUM: Applied Research.
• p. 50, SYMPOSIUM: Applying Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching in mainstream and special education settings in Iceland and Wales.

Index: European Journal of Behavior Analysis. Special Issue on Precision Teaching
VOLUME 4, No. 1 & 2, 2003

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PRESENTATION: Kelly Ferris, M.Ed., BCBA to speak on Precision Teaching to the Oregon Association for Behavior Analysis

If you're in Oregon, esp. the Portland area, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, you might want to drop by (RSVP (971)344-9440 or sschaefer@advbehavioralconcepts.com for this presentation by Kelly Ferris, M.Ed., BCBA, Precision Teacher, Vice-President of the Standard Celeration Society, and Clinical Services Supervisor for the Organization for Research and Learning,
delivered to

OREGON ASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (OR-ABA)
WHEN: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 9:00a-1:00p
WHERE: Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
Community Health Education Center
19300 SW 65th Avenue, Tualatin OR 97062, Room 106
*Lunch will be provided

Presenter: Kelly Ferris, M.Ed, BCBA

Kelly is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has been working with children with autism since 1999. She completed her Master's Degree in Special Education and graduated with her teaching certificate from the University of Washington in early childhood special education in June of 2003. From June until November 2006, Kelly worked with Fabrizio/Moors consulting supervising and designing behavior analytic services for children ages 2-15 years of age. Kelly gained additional experience working with Northwest Behavioral Associates as a Program Manager from 2003-2005. She focused largely on developing programs for children with moderate to higher language skills. In more recent years, she has worked on designing programs for non-vocal students with a range of skills, utilizing speech-generating devices. Kelly currently is a full-partner of and Clinical Services Supervisor for the Organization for Research and Learning (O.R.L) and the Program Director for FEAT of Washington 's Summer Intervention Program. Kelly's professional membership and participation has included presentations at conferences including the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) and the International Precision Teaching Conference. Kelly maintains full professional memberships in both The Standard Celeration Society and The Association for Behavior Analysis International and has published her applied work with children with autism in the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration and the Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis.

RSVP by May 28th [I think they are willing to scrub round that--it's mostly for the lunch count] to Sarah Schaefer, LPC, BCBA, (971)344-9440 or sschaefer@advbehavioralconcepts.com

Be there or be square...

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OPPORTUNITY: Summer Programs for Students & Teachers at Morningside Academy, Seattle, WA

Morningside Academy in Seattle, WA (Director: Kent Johnson) has for over two decades been helping struggling students to address skill problems that have kept them from academic success--helps them make phenomenal gains to catch up with their peers and master the skills to keep up.

While Morningside Academy also runs on a typical academic calendar, during the summer it offers special programs for both students and those who wish to learn the techniques of the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction.

First, for students ages 6-17:
Morningside Academy's Summer School
July 6th - July 31st 2009

Still has spots left. See their website for information on the program

and for teachers, tutors and graduate students,
Morningside Academy's Summer School Institute

Their website states that they are still currently taking applications for the 19th annual Summer School Institute, July 13th through July 31st, 2009. Some partial information,

Discover The Morningside Model Of Generative Instruction
Attend 1 or 2, or both weeks!

Week 1: July 13-17
Week 2: July 21- 24
Week 3; Graduate Students Only, July 27-31

Topics will range from an overview of the Model of Generative Instruction, Fundamentals of Instruction for Reading, Writing & Math, Practice Strategies using Precision Teaching and developing students ability to generalize and apply what they know in the classroom..."

Browse their website and find out what Morningside Academy does and whether they have the opportunity you've been looking for for your child or yourself.

For further reading:
Johnson, K.R., & Street, E.M. (2004). The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction: What it means to leave no child behind. Concord, MA: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
Also available at Behavior Research Company and the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Johnson, K. R. & Layng, T. V. J. (1992). Breaking the structuralist barrier: Literacy and numeracy with fluency. American Psychologist, 47, 1475–1490.
[abstract]

Johnson, K. R. & Layng, T. V. J. (1994). The Morningside model of generative instruction. In Gardner, R., Sainato, D. M., Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., Heward, W. L., Eshleman, J.W. & Grossi [Eds.]. (1994), Behavior Analysis in Education: Focus on measurably superior instruction (173–197). Belmont, CA: Brooks-Cole.
Text at teonor.com

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BLAST FROM THE PAST: (1970) Charting Rates with Stephanie Bates

Someone on the SCListserv recently mentioned that a good intro to break the ice on using a Standard Celeration Chart as well as see how really easy it is to understand and use, would be the video slideshow Charting Rates With Stephanie Bates. For reference, Stephanie was five years old and was able to learn to use and record counted data on a chart.

Charting Rates with Stephanie Bates was adapted and updated by Scott Born from the 1970 slide show [demonstration by Stephanie, using a script she co-authored with her father, Lindsley grad student, Douglas Bates] It is really a fine job and lets us, almost 40 years later, experience what it was like to see the original slide program.

Charting Rates with Stephanie Bates can be found on the Tutorials page of Behavior Research Company, the company founded by Ogden R. Lindsley, Ph.D. (1922-2004) and source of the original Standard Celerations Charts.

Standard Celeration Charting...easy enough for a child to do and
easy enough for you to as well.

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Bates, S., & Bates, D. F. (1971). ... and a child shall lead them:Stephanie's chart story. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 3, 111-113., in, TEACHING Exceptional Children, Selected Reprints from Spring 1971. Reprinted in 1975.

Ogden R. Lindsley (1922-2004)
Mini-biography at the Precision Teaching Hub and wiki
Bates, Douglas F. (1971). School-wide implementation of precision teaching . Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Ogden R. Lindsley student [ DAI, 32, no. 10A, (1971): 5485 ] .Proquest Express: 721172

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ANNOUNCE: Podcast interview of Nancy Hughes Lindsley

Rick Kubina has just announced a new Precision Teaching podcast interview of Nancy Hughes Lindsley.

Nancy is the Exec. of Behavior Research Company, surviving partner of Ogden R. Lindsley (1922-2004), and all-round wonderful lady. Like all the podcast interviews, this is bound to be a fascinating listen to the history of Precision Teaching and, in this interview in particular, Ogden Lindsley.

As noted in the previous post on the monthly podcasts,
Dr. Rick Kubina and his co-host Dr. Doug Kostewicz talk about current events in the Precision Teaching world, sometimes discuss research articles and interview guests who are practitioners and researchers in Precision Teaching and use of the Standard Celeration Chart.

You can search for these podcasts at iTunes using search term "Precision Teaching" or go directly via this link and then subscribe to new podcasts.

Happy listening!

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DISCLAIMER: Information is posted for informational or educational purposes of readers but is not, nor claims to be, an official outlet of the Standard Celeration Society or any other organization or business.
Readers are directed to seek definitive information from those primary sources