ABA training workshop for new tutors

[sphil]

Help - have first interview tomorrow for ABA tutors for DS2 and am rapidly realising the huge gaps in my knowledge about the whole process. My most pressing question is:

When you've got your team together and you organise a training workshop, do you pay the tutors to attend?

Slightly less urgently (got more time to organise) - what form should this workshop take?

Thanks v much oh wise ones...

Just bumping for evening MNetters!

Anyone?

Yep I pay them. I went through the curriculum sent by GM. Making sure everyone knew what each bit meant. Also went through all the paperwork making sure everyone knew what to fill in, showed everyone resources, were stuff kept and went through things like finishing a few mins early to allow time to tidy up. I had an experienced tutor who is happy to demonstrate so got her to do some of the stuff with ds1.

We're having another one soon. I'm going to start paying my experienced tutor to be a lead tutor I think & get her doing more she know more than me anyway!

You could play the video you sent me from Steven (the Carbone one).

Thanks both of you. I've had 12 replies and am seeing them all gradually. V promising so far! They're all so KEEN, which is lovely.

One thing I'm finding difficult about interviewing is that I'd like to see how they interact with DS2 but he doesn't take a blind bit of notice of most new people. The two I've seen so far were nervous anyway and I just felt it would put them on the spot too much to say - 'OK, now it's time to play with DS2' and then have him ignore them. Have you got any ideas about how to get round this?

Oh and I have one more (for now ) question about running a programme - it's quite a big question though.
How do you keep data and ensure coordination between all the members of a team? Atm I keep a file which has a section for each target, with mastery criteria etc. Then I record DS2's responses for the first trials of each day in each section. In the evening I plan the next day's trials according to how he's done that day. I've only ever shared the programme with one other person, so it was relatively easy to pass on that info - and I still did all the forward planning, they just did the trials and recorded his responses. I'd like my new tutors to do the planning if possible (obviously after they feel confident) - will probably have weekly meetings of whole team (either 3 or 4 of us) at first as well.

But I'm very aware that I'm making all this up by myself - need advice from people who've done it already! Or is there some sort of manual about running an ABA programme that I could read?

Thanks in advance
S x

There is a manual! Help Us Learn . This was how I started ABA 3 years ago, with this and one experienced tutor! Written by a parent, complete with forms, and lists of how to run workshops etc. It's pretty good tbh. On my list to review!

Wow that you have 12 replies- how many are you taking on? I think just see how they are around ds2, how they react to him, can you imagine them being energetic etc.

As our programme is only 1 hour a day I don't collect loads of data. Do it every now and then to check, but find we need two people becauuse ds1 is doing almost entirely fast trial work, so one to do the work and one to record data.

For passing info, I have a programme checklist on the wall, this lists all the programmes we're using at the moment and the tutors are meant to tick what they've covered at the end of each session.

oh I've linked to the wrong page- click on 'home' for the manual.

Thanks Gess - have ordered. My credit card is glowing atm!
12 is good isn't it? All thanks to you my dear! I was intending to interview them all but am starting to think it's not practical. What I really need to ask them on the phone is 'Do you have big clear facial features, in particular a large expressive mouth?' DS2 responds much better to people who have - but it's not exactly standard interview procedure...
I've tried to get round to it by asking people if they feel they can be dynamic and expressive. I warmed to one girl who said 'Well, I've got a very plain face but I'm very dramatic' .