#20 The Trick to Writing 'SMART'er Goals - Part 1

<p>This episode is part one of a two-part series featuring Liz Lefebre and Amy Evans, both highly acclaimed practitioners of Precision Teaching, as they discuss how to write more accurately measurable goals and their benefits. </p> <p>SMART goals are more overarching while precision teaching uses a more fine-tuned approach. By observing a learner's component skills and using charts, teachers can come up with more accurate goals and develop tailor-fit interventions. This includes determining pinpoints and a student's fluency in behaviors.</p> <p>HIGHLIGHTS</p> <p>03:13 Introduction to Liz Lefebre and Amy Evans</p> <p>08:20 Writing goals begin with observable behavior and the component and tool skills</p> <p>13:48 Determining the sufficiency of component skills in task analysis </p> <p>22:53 Comparing observations: Precision teaching vs percent correct </p> <p>29:12 How to come up with pinpoints</p> <p>36:28 How to figure out the aim of fluency</p> <p>GLOSSARY</p> <p>RESA - Retention, Endurance, Stability, and Application</p> <p>REAPS - The five performance results produced by fluency (longer Retention, greater Endurance, greater generalization to Application, Performance aims for teaching, and Standards for aims and evaluation.</p> <p>Discrete Trial Training (DTT) - Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is a teaching technique used in some therapies for autistic children. It involves breaking skills down to their most basic parts and teaching those skills to children, step by step.</p> <p>Pinpoint - A specific way of describing what a single countable behavior is.</p> <p>RESOURCES</p> <p>Join our The ABA and OT Podcast Facebook Group to get access to the following resources:</p> <p>Facebook group link: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/groups/397478901376425'>https://www.facebook.com/groups/397478901376425</a></p> <p>EXTERNAL RESOURCES</p> <p><a href='https://www.o4rl.com/'>Organization for Research and Learning</a> Website</p> <p><a href='http://dradititheot.com/'>Dr. Aditi the OT</a> Website</p> <p><