For this week’s discussion, the following postings, making sure to address your responses with professionalism and confidentiality.
Consider a personal experience in which a supervisor provided you with feedback related to your performance. Briefly describe the experience and discuss whether the feedback was provided in an evidence-based manner as outlined in Chapter 6 of The Supervisor’s Guidebook. Then, following the steps for providing feedback, outline an example of how your supervisor should have provided feedback in a way that is reflective of this evidence-based approach. Finally, explain how reframing this feedback experience will help you be a more effective supervisor to others in your work (parents, direct support, classroom staff, etc.).
ALSO…
Review two of your classmates’ responses, using the following ideas as a guide:
Be sure to maintain professionalism in your responses related to situations or scenarios.
Review the steps outlined for providing feedback. Do you have any considerations to add?
What part of your peer’s reflection did you find interesting? Why?
Ask at least one thoughtful follow-up question.
Read the following chapters in your texts:
Read Chapter 6 in The Supervisor’s Guidebook: “Supporting Proficient Work: Positive Feedback”
Read Chapter 8 in The Supervisor’s Guidebook: “Correcting Nonproficient Work Performance”
Chapter 1: Preference Assessment and Reinforcer Evaluation in Applied behavior analysis advanced guidebook
Chapter 12 “Performance Feedback” in Bringing out the best in people: How to apply the astonishing power of positive reinforcement
In addition to the above readings in your texts, please read or review the following articles:
Identifying the relation between feedback preferences and performance. Bacotti, et al. (2021)
Recommended practices for individual supervision of aspiring behavior analysts. Sellers, et al. (2016)
Note: Also refer to Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts Section 4, Code 4.10 for evaluating effects of supervision. BACB (2022)
Towards a competency based, ethical, and socially valid approach to the supervision of applied behavior analytic trainees. Turner, et al. (2016)
Supplemental Resource:
ABA Inside Track Podcast Episode 184 – Receiving Feedback w/ Dr. Tyra Sellers + Dr. Seth Walker ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzsDKD_-bZ0 )
