The efficacy of the bug-in-the-ear technique in training teachers as mediators of behavior modification
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Paul E. Bowles (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Rosemery Nelson
Abstract: In the past, training of mediators in behavior modification principles and techniques centered around clinical settings and involved parents and institutional staff as the mediators. More recently, interest has grown in training teachers as mediators of behavior modification in the classroom. The primary types of training have been inservice workshops, in-class signaling, and video-taped feedback. Earlier success in clinical settings with the "bug-in-the-ear" (BIE) training of parents suggested that this technique might be useful to supplement teacher training workshops. The BIE is a portable radio and ear piece worn by the teacher. The experimenter broadcasts instructions to the teacher from a portable booth while observing the teacher's behavior through a one-way mirror. The purpose of the present study was to determine if teachers' in-class behaviors could be changed as a result of workshop training and/or BIE training subsequent to the workshop. The workshop consisted of six two-hour sessions, which included lectures on the behavioral model (antecedents, behaviors, consequences), behavior modification techniques, and their application to problems in the classroom. Each teacher was also required to do a case study on one behavior in her classroom.
The efficacy of the bug-in-the-ear technique in training teachers as mediators of behavior modification
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 1974
- Subjects
- Behavior modification
- Teachers $x In-service training