Abstract for HABA

For over 28 years, Morningside Academy has been developing a model of teaching and learning which we call the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction (MMGI). All aspects of MMGI have been based on the principles of Behavior Analysis.

The goal of the MMGI is to combines scientific-based methods with researched-based curriculum to teach the foundation skills to a high level of automaticity and accuracy in order to set the stage for students to be able to be generative or engage in untaught, novel performances. MMGI systematically approaches all foundation skills, such as reading, writing, math, thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills, Participants learn about scientific principles of learning and teaching; procedures that illustrate these principles; data supporting the principles and procedures; and a large illustrative mastery learning system incorporating a large number of learner-verified procedures, the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction. In this way, complex behavior can be viewed as the evolving outcomes of a learner’s environmental selection history

The workshop will give examples of the necessary teacher student repertoires need to make this model effective.

Objectives (7)

1. Participants will learn and be able to state all 6 parts of the overall organizational framework which has been adapted from Tiemann and Markle

2. Participants will be able to discriminate and give examples of what tool skills, component and composite skills are in a specific goal.

3. Participants will be able to describe and illustrate how students make sensory contact with instruction through the framework of learning channels developed by Dr. Eric Haughton.

4. Participants will be able to describe instruction as a 3-term contingency. They will develop a series of connected instructional episodes.

5. Participants will be able to describe and state the 4 Phases of Learning (instruction, practice, test and application).

6. Participants will be able to outline the critical features required for practice to be effective which are derived from work of Dr. Lindsey and others using precision teaching.

7. Participants will be able to describe two particular strategies that students can employ when needing to select and recombine their repertoires to produce increasingly complex behavior (Thinking Aloud Problem Solving and Fluent Thinking Skills).