In a story headlined “AC/OV spankings on the decline,” Carleta Weyrich of the The People’s Defender (OH, US) reported that spankings were used in two of the seven Ohio Valley School local education agency (LEA). The 11 spankings reported in the past two years represents a decline from previous time periods, according to school officials.
Adams County/Ohio Valley School district held its annual public corporal punishment meeting on Aug. 25 to discuss the use of spanking in its schools. AC/OVSD is one of 17 districts in the state of Ohio to permit its staff to spank students.
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Matt Normand, a professor at the University of the Pacific who maintains a site he calls “The Skinner Box,” publishes a series of podcasts about behavior analysis. The second of these, released 5 August 2008, is a discussion of functional behavioral analysis (FBA). Much of the content features a conversation with Brian Iwata about his experiences in early work on FBA as well as other matters (e.g., comparison of FBA and simpler descriptive analyses). The latest episode of “Current Directions in Behavioral Science” is available at Mr. Normand’s Web site. It’s worth a listen.
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The Tennessee Association for Behavior Analysis has scheduled it fall conference for Nashville (TN, US) at the Opryland Resort 7-9 November 2008.
Please take a moment to check your schedule and pencil in the annual TABA conference for November 7th-9th, 2008. We’re excited to announce that the Opryland Resort will be our conference site again this year.
Conference room rates at the Opryland Resort are $160.00 per night plus $15.00 resort fees. Parking is $16.00 per day or $24.00 for Valet parking. Please use our group code X-TABA8 when reserving your room.
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Brian Iwata, Ph.D., will conduct a series of two-day workshops around the US this fall. Mr. Iwata, who is professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Florida, is one of the pre-eminent authorities on assessment and treatment of severe behavior problems such as self-injury. The workshops are entitled “Functional Analysis & Treatment of Severe Behavior Disorders: Methods for Clinicians and Educators.”
- 23-24 October 2008 in Louisville (KY, US);
- 13-14 November 2008 in Richmond (VA, US);
- 15-16 December 2008 in Austin (TX, US)
- 17-18 December 2008 in Orlando (FL, US)
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In “Calm Down or Else,” (15 July 2008) Benedict Carey reports about a possible increase in the use of restraints, seclusion, and other physically coercive methods to manage disruptive behavior.
For more than a decade, parents of children with developmental and psychiatric problems have pushed to gain more access to mainstream schools and classrooms for their sons and daughters. One unfortunate result, some experts say, is schools’ increasing use of precisely the sort of practices families hoped to avoid by steering clear of institutionalized settings: takedowns, isolation rooms, restraining chairs with straps, and worse.
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Over on Like Horses to Water, a first-year teacher of English has a post about discipline that caught my eye. In “Thoughts on Discipline #1: Why is discipline so difficult?” the author has captured one of the ideas that I express every semester.
“Classroom management” is one of the biggest challenges for all teachers, and one of the most difficult for us to get help with. In this blog I’ll be harping endlessly on the intensely personal and individualistic nature of teaching, and classroom management is one of the most personal parts of teaching.
It’s harder for new teachers since most of us still have our idealism, and are naturally not mean people. We’re going to win them over with love, we tell ourselves. We will treat them like mature and responsible young people, and they will rise to meet our high expectations. All together now: awwwwwwww…
That’s a noble and worthwhile approach, but it is insufficient. The author goes on to explain that this is an unrealistic view. I’m sure I disagree with some of the other points made in other posts, but there’s a lot of first-person observations that are worth reading in Like Horses to Water.
Link to “Thoughts on Discipline #1….”
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