Explaining TAGteach to Your Sports Parents

If you are a coach using TAGteach and you want to explain what you are doing to the parents of your athletes - we have just the thing! You can download these cool pamphlets created by Michelle Ma and Maya Rankupalli. One is generic and one is specifically for skating. These are PDF files. If you want to add your own contact information you can do this by importing the file into Adobe Photo Shop or similar program and making changes. We are unable to help with this.

Click here to get the generic pamphlet page 1

Click here to get the generic pamphlet page 2

Click here to get the skating pamphlet

Not only are these available in print, but TAGteach is also explained in ASL in this wonderful video created by ASL interpreter Bonnie Gibson-Brydon and her beautiful assistants Sissy and Nicole Paniagua.

Thanks to Lynn Loar, Libby Colman and Judy Johns for mentoring and facilitating the production of these materials. Produced by The Pryor Foundation.

Tags on Ice

For more about TAGteach with skating, purchase the Tags On Ice DVD produced by TAGteacher and skating coach Lynn Loar. Here is a video trailer:

More About TAGteach and Sports

TAGteach works incredibly well for sports training. Check out the sports page at our website for more information and our recorded webinars with sports-related content

    

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"You Don't Act Like a Jerk When You Have Business Cards"

Great article:
Reprinted with permission from the Latham Letter
"You Don't Act Like a Jerk When You Have Business Cards"
Lynn Loar, Ph.D., LCSW with
Geoffrey Pott, Sebastian Pott and Noah Carlton
Full version available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/33977977/LLSmr2010LLoar

“You don’t act like a jerk when you have business cards” explained eight-year-old

 Geoffrey Pott when I asked about his newfound maturity and impulse control. The business cards were one in a series of reinforcers he – and by now members of his staff – had received for stellar behavior in my ice skating class at the Winter Lodge in Palo Alto, California.

The Family Ice Skating Program, featured in the short documentary TAGs on Ice,** offers ice skating instruction for children with special needs and their families. It’s one of the few programs that entire families can enjoy regardless of the disparate abilities of their several children. A peek at the class through the Winter Lodge’s picture window yields the impression of a laboratory testing prototypes for the next generation of Energizer Bunnies, lots of little boys zooming around with no interest in learning to stop – and a few zooming dads, too!

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Show 'Em the Money!

What do kids really want for reinforcement? Candy, for one thing; money for another. This according to an article published in the the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of the Latham Letter and written by social worker Lynn Loar and five young co-authors. Parents and other adults need to realize that it is all very well to hope that an innate sense of moral obligation will cause Jimmy to clean his room, but if you want the job done easily and well, then you need to pay with currency that kids value.

Kid authors Hilary Louie, Evelyn Pang, Michelle Ma, Maya Rankupalli and Geoffrey Pott are experienced with clicker training, TAGteaching and the concept of reinforcement and they explain why certain things are reinforcing and in what context. Lynn Loar sums it up as follows:

So, there you have it. Be generous, sincere and specific. Use candy and money as reinforcers, even if you prefer other things. As Maya shows, children move on from candy, pennies and toys to more mature and altruistic reinforcers when they are ready. Clicker trainers know to let the learner set the pace; let your students develop this broader perspective at their own pace and don’t begrudge the candy and pennies in the meantime.

Click here to read the entire article.

Click here to read an article about TAGteach and reinforcement

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Tags on Ice DVD

Tags on Ice is a lovely documentary-style video that shows children with special needs and their families learning to ice skate with TAGteach.

It is so nice to see the relaxed atmosphere and everyone cooperating and enjoying themselves. It is cute to see the kids showing their point stickers to their parents. I liked the part where the little boy came to Lynn and asked her to tag him for going backwards and then he went off and practiced it by himself.

Joan Orr - TAGteach Principal

Click here to find out more about this DVD or to order it.

Click here to watch some of the fun.

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