Session 7: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL TEACHING, PART 2

What prompting strategy requires the DSP to know how much help an individual needs so they won’t provide any more help than is needed?

A) Partial participation

B) Fading

C) Error correction

D) Least-to-most

D) Least-to-most

What is partial participation?

A) Participating in tasks that need some level of support

B) Participating in new tasks only

C) Participating when feeling happy about a task

D) Participating only when the task requires extra effort

A) Participating in tasks that need some level of support

What is a way of increasing the meaningful participation of individuals in age-appropriate, functional activities?

A) Use of distractors

B) Use of punishment

C) Use of adaptations

D) Use of questions

C) Use of adaptations

What are two things that can be adapted to allow the individual to participate?

A) Friends and relatives

B) Birthdays and anniversaries

C) Time and temperature

D) Materials and environment

D) Materials and environment

What is reinforcement?

A) Additional information to ensure success

B) Rewards given after successfully performing a desired behavior

C) Sequence of actions or steps

D) A new skill or way of doing something

B) Rewards given after successfully performing a desired behavior

What is shaping?

A) Adaptation of the sequence of activities

B) Reinforcement of successive attempts

C) Development of prompting skills

D) Reinforcement of poor behavior

B) Reinforcement of successive attempts

What does it mean to generalize a skill?

A) To be able to use a skill when it is needed or wanted

B) To learn general skills

C) To be able to perform a skill in certain situations

D) To know when to use a skill

A) To be able to use a skill when it is needed or wanted

How can the DSP help the individual generalize learned skills?

A) Provide physical supports when needed

B) Reinforce only when the individual performs the skill correctly

C) Include different situations toward the end of the teaching process

D) Use appropriate prompting strategies

C) Include different situations toward the end of the teaching process

How can the DSP evaluate teaching effectiveness?

A) Ask the individual to evaluate their teaching

B) Keep a journal documenting the individual's daily activities

C) Ask a supervisor to evaluate their teaching

D) Document prompting level and the steps the individual can do independently

D) Document prompting level and the steps the individual can do independently

What helps individuals maintain newly learned skills?

A) Periodic re-teaching of the skills

B) Performing the skills once a year

C) Punishment for not remembering the skills

D) Reminding the individual of their success with the skills

A) Periodic re-teaching of the skills