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Best Practice Instructional Strategies for Effective Teaching



In this train the trainer session, Dr. Pomeranz provides attendees with intensive hands on experience of best practice technology for facilitating skill acquisition. Through demonstration and role-play, attendees will enhance their skills in training “direct support professionals” in effectively teaching individuals: daily living, vocational, leisure, social and community participation skills. Dr. Pomeranz focuses the session on the fundamental strategies of promoting independence and self-determination. The instructional strategies address: verbal prompting, training materials usage, physical queuing, physical prompting, backward chaining, graduated guidance, successive approximations, proximity control and environmental engineering. The session also reinforces the precept that an essential responsibility of all support staff is to emancipate the individuals they support – from unnecessary dependence.












WHAT ATTENDEES ARE SAYING



I’ve been to many behavior trainings before and this was illuminating. The information I learned will not only help me in my professional capacity, but also in my personal life as a parent of a child with special needs. Westside Regional Center, Culver City, CA


I am looking forward to returning to the house where I work to see through more enlightened eyes how to better the lives of the people I work with – through teaching moments, joy and seeing things through their eyes. Life Time Assistance, Rochester, NY


I have worked in this field for six years and in that time I have never had information that was presented to me where I have felt so enlightened. A lot of these principles I learned in orientation at my jobs but now these principles mean so much more to me. I've learned not just how to apply them but that they mean so much more than I thought they did. I have grown as a direct support professional. St. Charles County Direct Support Conference, St. Charles, MO



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