ED X320S - ED X 320S: Personnel, Supervision, and Management

Course Description

In this course, students will learn how to become effective supervisors. Students will learn about  supervision and management skills: Specifically, students will learn how to establish clear performance expectations for the supervisor and supervisee, select appropriate supervision goals based on an assessment of the supervisee’s skills, train personnel to competently perform assessment and intervention procedures, use performance monitoring, feedback, and reinforcement systems, use a functional assessment approach (e.g., performance diagnostics) to identify variables affecting personnel performance, use function-based strategies to improve personnel performance, and evaluate the effects of supervision (e.g., on client outcomes, on supervisee repertoires).

Learner Outcomes

At the end of the course students will be able to:

• Collaborate with others who support and/or provide services to clients.
• State the reasons for using behavior-analytic supervision and the potential risks of ineffective supervision (e.g., poor client outcomes, poor supervisee performance). 
• Establish clear performance expectations for the supervisor and supervisee (i.e., RBT).
• Select supervision goals based on informal/formal assessment results of the RBT’s/supervisee’s skills.
• Use performance monitoring, feedback, and reinforcement systems.
• Use function-based strategies to improve personnel performance.
• Evaluate the effects of supervision on an ongoing basis (e.g., on client outcomes, on supervisee repertoires).

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Assistant Behavior Analyst : BCaBA BOARD CERTIFIED ASSISTANT BEHAVIOR ANALYST