ABSTRACT
D. For a lesson you might one day teach, describe how you could incorporate one or more of the following:
1. increasing rate of responding for everyone 2. successive approximation techniques
a. asking for selecting before producing b. starting with high contrast before moving to subtle differences c. backward chaining d. fading and/or vanishing prompts e. delayed prompting
Many critics of education have pointed out that while physicians of a century ago would be lost if they were transported to the twenty-first century, teachers would be right at home. While it is true that lecturers from the early 1900s would be right at home on a podium today (except, of course, they would not show computer presentations), teachers from the early twentieth century would not be “right at home” in a behavioral classroom. They would not know specific techniques of shaping behavior and they would rely on punishment for control.
