Class on Task

The Class on Task Podcast is back and ready to support you through a new school year! This is an exciting time for all of us, but especially new teachers! We hope you have a wonderful first week back to school whether that is this week or in a few weeks. Whenever it is, this episode should be on your listen list! Dr. Lori Friesen is our guest today and she's talking about 4 common classroom management mistakes new teachers make and how to avoid them. Even if you're not a first year teacher, you may learn some tips after pressing play. 

Adding movement breaks in your classroom routine can help reduce disruptive behavior and motivate students to learn! Jay is not only a teacher who uses movement breaks, he CREATES movement breaks tied to all subject areas grades K-3! In this episode, you will hear about Jay's experience with movement breaks, recommendations on how often to use movement breaks, how movement breaks can benefit students and teachers, and the perks to these specific videos! 

There are over 10 million students in schools who can not read! Are you ready to make a bigger impact on your students' literacy skills? Michael Maloney has 50+ years in education successfully teaching people ages 4 to 54 to read! 

Press play and hear the answers to the following questions and MORE! 

What order should you teach letter sounds? (Spoiler alert... it's not in alphabetical order!) 

What and how should we introduce reading words? 

What data is most important to take to measure student progress? 

What is Direct Instruction? 

Why are these teaching methods so effective? 

What is a school counselor and how can they help your students? 

Press play and find out from school counselor John Burnett. John started his career as a Spanish middle school teacher. He worked as a family and mental health service specialist and is now a middle school counselor! He shares great tips for building relationships with students and promoting self-care for teachers! 

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Let’s face it, we all have moments where we don’t feel like doing what we need to do. Our students feel the same way. We may not break things, curse, or push someone when we are upset about doing work, but our students might. If a student engages in disruptive behaviors that disrupt their learning or other students’ learning it presents a problem!

Dr. Hallie Ertel shares strategies of what we can do to prevent frustrations related to doing classroom assignments, important things to understand about behavior, how to react to problem behavior, and a variety of tools you can add to your toolbox!

This interview with Dr. David Lee, Department Head and Professor of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education at Penn State University is packed full of insightful information for special education teachers, general education teachers, behavior analysts (BCBAs), and school psychologists. Dr. Lee contributed to over 20 research students including examining behavioral and social dynamics, improving classroom management in middle school classrooms, assessing student behaviors, increasing academic task completion, and supporting students with emotional and behavior disorders. 

Dr. Lee answers these questions and more! 

How can I increase student engagement? 

How can I encourage students to complete academic assignments? 

What should I keep in mind about social dynamics, specifically for our middle school students? 

How can teachers overcome common classroom management struggles? 

How can I support my students?

Resources 

Do you have a student who struggles learning new skills? Do you have students that learn a skill but later forget it? Do you have parents asking you for tutor recommendations or resources to help their children become better readers? 

In this interview, Chris Topham shares how to teach new skills and measure student progress by using applied behavior analysis. He shares what Direct Instruction is and what features make it effective for learners. He also touches on how we can be using Precision Teaching to better measure student progress. 

Learn more about Direct Instruction, Celeration Education, and resources to help your students! 

Wouldn't it be nice if you could prevent problem behavior from happening instead of spending all the time to "fix" it or redirect a student after it disrupts a lesson? In applied behavior analysis (ABA) we call proactive or prevention strategies Antecedent Manipulations. Listen in to hear 5 simple strategies you can implement in any grade level to help decrease inappropriate behavior and increase more appropriate behavior!

Whether you are starting a new job as a school administrator or switching to a new school, this interview is packed with valuable recommendations to help you be successful. Our guest today is Dr. Chris Tienken who is an associate professor of Education Administration at Seton Hall University in the College of Education and Human Services, Department of Education Leadership, and Management, & Policy. We are excited to have him here with us today to talk about his experience working as a school administrator and how school administrators can collaborate most effectively with teachers and related service providers.

Join us as we interview TWO special guests, a mother and daughter teaching duo! Pam Patton is a retired teacher and her daughter, Elizabeth Patton just completed her first year of teaching. If you're wondering what you should focus on during the first week back to school or general classroom tips for going back to school, this is a great episode for you. 

Teachers and school staff, we wish you a successful start to your school year! 

Back to School Read Aloud

Hey Pre-K, Kindergarten, and SPED teachers, this episode is for you! Do you ever have parents ask you questions about toilet training, but you're really unsure of what to suggest? Does assisting with toileting or accidents take time away from teaching? Have you been avoiding this topic and encouraging the pull-ups? Maybe after hearing tips from expert Dr. Frank Cicero PhD, BCBA, LBA on toilet training you will change your mind. Dr. Cicero specializes in many areas within applied behavior analysis and psychology including developmental disabilities, eating issues, sleeping concerns, parent training, social skills training, attention deficit disorders, and toilet training. 

Meera Deters MA, CCC-SLP, BCTS, ACAS is a speech and language pathologist and the owner of Super Speech Solutions. Meera has worked in a variety of settings including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, reha-bilitation clinics, charter schools, and private practices over the past fourteen years. In this episode, she talks about what speech and language therapy is and she shares great tips for classroom teachers! 

Dr. Paul Gavoni, Ed.D, BCBA has more than 20 years in human services and public education. Recognized by many as an authentic leader, Dr. Gavoni has provided organizations and athletes with Deliberate Coaching focused on analyzing and developing behavior and performance management systems to positively impact targeted goals. 

In this episode, Dr. Gavoni shares strategies and tips for school leaders on how to go from leading to coaching. He also shares valuable information on school systems and classroom behavior management tips for teachers. Superintendents, school administrators, teachers, support staff, instructional coaches, BCBA's, and others working in school systems will benefit from this episode. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did! 

"Teachers are classroom leaders. Principals and Assistant Principals are school leaders. It comes down to leadership. If you think about the classroom, the classroom is very much like a small organization. The teacher is like the CEO and the students are employees. They have an outcome they are trying to produce which is student achievement." - Dr. Gavoni 

We all talk about self-care, mental health, and making time for ourself. However, are you doing it? We are all busy school professionals and probably find it difficult to eat healthy and remain active when we are teaching. We may not be able to eat lunch because our students need us. We may be writing lesson plans, grading papers, or writing IEP goals at night instead of working out or prepping meals. On this episode, Daniela Galvez shares 6 steps that will help you actually meet your goals! 

Do you wish you had a magic wand you can use to decrease problem behavior in the classroom? This behavior strategy is the next best thing! Once you learn how to implement true positive reinforcement, you will see a positive difference in your classroom AND less problem behavior!  In this episode we interview, Yendri Diaz to learn how teachers can use positive reinforcement in the classroom. Yendri taught several years and is now a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). She shares easy to follow steps that you can use in your classroom today!  

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Welcome to the Class on Task Podcast! 

You will learn how the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA) can be used in schools to improve education. We will cover a variety of topics on this podcast and thought collaboration was a perfect way to start. We want to share about ABA, but we also want to learn from other professionals (e.g., speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, administrators) on ways to help our students be successful and help educators! 

In this episode, we discuss the importance of collaborating with other professionals in order to provide the best support for students. 

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