Martha: I would just like to say that this is a really great example of tracking the child and raising and lowering the criteria right at the first moment. When she didn’t want to put the ball in the bowl right away, Seany pulled the bowl away and Tink dropped it on the floor and then he gradually introduced the bowl back. And he put it right under her hand, so it was really easy for her to drop the ball into the bowl. It’s just a fabulous video.

Joan (reading from the webinar chat from an attendee): He’s flexible with his tag points. When he realized that she didn’t quite understand that she was meant to drop the ball into the bowl he changed the criteria to “near the bowl” then “touching the edge of the bowl”

The observations for this video were:

• Goes back to point of success
• Makes it easy to succeed
• Raises criteria upon consistent success
• No error correction – ignores mistakes
• Tink decides when the session is over
• Tink seems a bit agitated near the end

Point of Success: This is the place to start, or to return to, where the learner had clear success.

If something goes wrong, we immediately go back to the point of success and start again from there.

We also start a new session with at a point of success to ensure that we start off on a good note.

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No Error Correction: There is no error correction in TAGteach. If a learner makes a mistake, the teacher files away that information and adjusts future tag points to ensure success. Instead of pointing out an error, you would just move to another tag point earlier in the shaping progression so that the learner is assured success and gets more practice before making it harder.

The learner gets a tag or doesn’t. If they don’t get a tag they know to self assess and try again. There is no need to point out errors or give extra information about what to do better the next time.