TAGteach Without the Tagger
You can certainly apply all the principles and practices of TAGteach without actually tagging. You can break skills down to small parts, use the focus funnel, apply the WOOF criteria to your instructions and use all the tools you have learned in this and the Level 1 course. You can plan and run your lessons exactly as you would any other TAGteach session, even if you don’t ultimately mark success with a tag.
You won’t get the clarity, consistency and precision that you get with the click sound with other ways of marking correct behavior, but you can still get good results with a verbal tag (just say ‘tag’) or a shoulder tap or by pulling a tagulator bead (or the learner pulling a bead) or anything else that the learner can perceive.
If you can arrange it so that the learner knows themselves the moment that they got it right, then feedback from you may not be required in that moment of success.
Short phrase coaching is another way to use TAGteach without actually tagging. You can of course use both SPC and a tag point at the same time.
A sign and a tagulator is a great way to manage group contingencies. Everyone pulls a bead when they shut the door. After the tagulator is done, or after a certain number of times through the tagulator the group gets a reward.
Lesson Progress
Lesson Navigation
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Core Lessons - Module 5
- Lesson 5 Topics - TAGteach Session Management
- Getting Started with TAGteach
- Antecedent Arrangement - the environment
- Antecedent Arrangement - prompts
- Antecedent Arrangement - learner in control
- Identifying Reinforcers
- Is it reinforcing, really?
- Reinforcement Schedules
- Fun with Tagulators
- TAGteach Configurations for Success
- Self Tagging
- Peer and Group Tagging
- Peer Tagging in classroom example
- Peer tagging in a sports drill
- TAGteach Without the Tagger
- TAGteach Without the Tagger - video example
- Practice
- Practice - What is Fluency?
- Practice - Why do we need Fluency?
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Supplementary Materials - Module 5
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Homework - Module 5