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PYRAMID TRAINING OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TO USE A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT “SKILL PACKAGE” 1
Author(s) -
Jones Fredric H.,
Fremouw William,
Carples Steven
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1977.10-239
Subject(s) - tier 1 network , tier 2 network , psychology , training (meteorology) , productivity , mathematics education , multiple baseline design , medical education , computer science , medicine , intervention (counseling) , telecommunications , physics , the internet , psychiatry , world wide web , meteorology , economics , macroeconomics
Three regular elementary teachers were trained in the use of a classroom management “skill package”. Subsequently, each of these three teachers (tier 1 of training) trained three more teachers to use the same skill package (tier 2 of training). Direct behavioral measures of student disruptiveness were taken in the three tier‐1 classrooms and four tier‐2 classrooms, and permanent product measures of student productivity in arithmetic were taken in the three tier‐1 classrooms. Results indicated that student disruptiveness decreased at least as much in the tier‐2 classrooms as in the tier‐1 classrooms. Data also indicated that serving as trainers benefited two of the tier‐1 teachers who profited least from the original training by producing further reductions in disruptiveness in their respective classrooms. Productivity data suggested that use of the “skill package” increased classroom academic output, especially for those students below the median in productivity during baseline. The investigators' time investment in training a tier‐2 teacher was one‐fourth that of training a tier‐1 teacher.