F3H: Behavioral Skills Training for Teachers

Behavioral Skills Training builds teacher competence and confidence, promotes fidelity and consistency in instructional practices, and improves student outcomes through effective coaching. These benefits underscore the value of BST in educational settings, particularly for teachers working with students with autism.

Things to consider:
– Consistent Implementation Improvement: BST results in the most consistent improvement in implementation fidelity among teachers.
– Evidence-Based Training Method: BST is recognized as an evidence-based method for staff training in education settings.
– Superiority Over Lectures: BST improves accuracy and generalization better than lecture-only professional development methods.

BST is effective across multiple professions and skills, including healthcare and safety training, parent instruction, teacher language coaching, social-skills training, and discrete trial training (DTT) fidelity. This generality highlights the versatility and broad applicability of BST in different contexts.

Learning Outcomes:

Define BST and its four components

Implement BST when coaching teachers

Identify barriers and solutions

Evaluate effectiveness

Speakers