Have you wondered how to apply TAGteach in a classroom setting? Will it be too noisy for the learner to hear the tags? Will the learner be too distracted by everything else going on the room? Will you need to give too many food reinforcers? Can you use TAGteach to manage aggressive and dangerous behaviors? Is it OK to let the child use the tagger and be the teacher? Listen to this month’s interview with a TAGteacher and watch the accompanying videos to get answers to these and more questions.
This month’s interview is with Anne Wormald. Anne is one of the first TAGteachers and has extensive experience from both ends of the tagger, being the daughter of Joan Orr, one of the TAGteach cofounders. Anne is working on her BCBA and is a Level 2 TAGteacher. She has many years of experience working with special needs kids and at the moment is working in home and school settings with children with autism.
Martha had questions for Anne on the following topics:
- Your favorite story about TAGteach at work
- Having students tag the teacher
- Handling problems with learners taking too long to respond
- Using TAGteach for both skill development and behavior management
- Handling aggressive behavior in a school setting
- Teacher’s reactions to using TAGteach during tantrums
Anne referred to a couple of videos and these are discussed at the end of the interview. The videos are shown lower down in this post so that you can watch them after you listen to the interview.
Video #1
Video #2
As part of our online course: TAGteach for Autism, we are holding monthly live Q&A sessions with author and mother of a child with autism, Martha Gabler. A feature of these Q&A sessions is an interview with a TAGteacher. We will be posting the interview section in our blog each month for you to view for free. The full Q&A session will be available for purchase.
