Lesson 5: Lesson Plans II

Lesson Plan 3: ABA Fundamentals and Ethics

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Objective:

• Teachers will learn the key ideas and essential principles behind ABA.
• Teachers will see why ethical practice is important at ABA.

Materials:

• Slides showing the basics and principles of ABA
• Real-life examples for thinking about ethics
• Virtual reality setup to practice ethical situations

Activities:

Getting to know ABA (30 minutes):

• Check out the ABA backstory, core ideas, and main theories.
• Talk about how people use ABA in different places, focusing on dealing with challenging behaviors.

Ethical considerations (30 minutes):

• Show ethical guidelines that apply to the practice of ABA
• Talk about real-life case studies in which ethical issues arise and how to solve them.
• Ask a group to talk about why ethical practice is important.

VR Navigation Tutorial (20 minutes):

• Give a lesson on how to move and interact in the virtual reality world used for training.
• Allow participants to review the VR settings to make sure they are comfortable before starting more complex tasks.

Evaluation:

• Educators will take a quiz on ABA principles and ethical considerations.
• Hands-on assessment through virtual reality interactions in which teachers show how they put ethical standards into practice.

Lesson Plan 4: ABA Techniques – Using Prompts and Fading

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Objective:

• Teachers will learn and practice various prompting strategies and how to fade them out over time.

Materials:

• Virtual reality system with request scenarios
• Booklets detailing the types of prompting and fading techniques
• Sample videos showing effective use of prompting and fading techniques

Activities:

Introduction to the use of prompts (20 minutes):

• Talk about different prompts: verbal, visual, physical, and model.
• Give examples and discuss why it is crucial to choose the right prompts based on each student’s needs.

Virtual reality incitement practice (40 minutes):

• Teachers will enter a virtual reality environment designed to practice using different prompts.
• The task begins with a scenario that requires many prompts and narrows them down as the learner moves through the scene.
• Teachers will receive instant feedback within the world of virtual reality.

Time for team talk and reflection (20 minutes):

• Talk about what it was like to use prompts in virtual reality.
• Consider the challenging parts of narrowing down prompts and how to handle them in real classrooms.

Evaluation:

• Teachers will write a diary entry about their time using prompts and reducing them in virtual reality.
• The rating depends on how well they fade-out the prompts during VR tasks.