• Watch the Unit 6 Lecture. (transcripts)
• Read the following scenario

Evidence Based Staff Training

Scenario:

Evidence Based Staff Training

Acme Behavioral Consultation, Inc., has received another referral. This time, you are asked to join a team of consultants who have been working with Global Ed Charter School. Global Ed is a for-profit organization in Washington, D.C., serving a diverse group of students, culturally and economically. Global Ed’s president has reported that behavior incidents have increased since the beginning of the school year in all classes. The president has been lobbying the board for the last two years to develop a behavior management service unit at the school. In addition, she believes that the staff require additional training on basic behavior analytic tactics.

Your Acme supervisor has tasked you with providing initial ideas for an effective staff-training program to be implemented at Global Ed.

For your discussion this week, you are asked to discuss potential staff training plans for Global Ed:

1. Identify a specific model for evidence-based staff training.
2. Describe the necessary components of your selected staff-training model. Include criteria for completion of training.
3. Discuss why the components in your selected model are necessary and why your staff-training model is the best choice.
4. Discuss other potential reasons for the increase in inappropriate behaviors at Global Ed. Is staff training the only solution? What other considerations and environmental variables could be evaluated?

Peer Responses:

Review two of your classmates’ posts to assess the following:

• Critique your peers’ selected models for staff training. Are any components missing? Include suggestions for additional criteria that could be added.
• Add to your peers’ discussion of other potential causes for the problem’s at Global Ed – excluding staff skill deficits.

Reading and Resources

Your reading this week will review best practices related to staff training and development. Your reading will also cover general themes, as well as program designs, for effective staff training. In the textbook read:

Chapter 19: “Getting Smarter Quicker”

Your first library resource will provide an example of an actual model for staff training. Your second library resource will provide an overview of methods that can be used to calculate inter-observer agreement. In the Purdue Global Library please read:

Morgan, D. L., & Morgan, R. K. (2009). Interobserver agreement. In Single-Case Research Methods

for the Behavioral and Health Sciences, 62–67. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE

Publications, Inc.

Parsons, M. B., Rollyson, J. H., & Reid, D. H. (2012). Evidence-based staff training: A guide for

practitioners. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 5(2), 2–11.

TEXTBOOKS

Daniels, A. Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement.