Teaching Interaction (TI)

The 5 steps of Teaching interaction (TI):

1)Labeling and Initiation-skill should be clearly defined, always used age appropriate language. Conversational style should match the student's ability and level of understanding. It must be clearly defined too

2)Rationale- Do not ever give the rote rationale ie If we want to teach him to play with friends, don't ever say that it's fun to play with friends cause it is not a strong rationale. He will most likely think it's more fun playing alone. Always give the rationale that he really needs.

3)Describing and Demonstration- know the task analysis steps, have to make sure the students understand the steps by making him reiterate or one can demonstrate it. One can also use descrimination training to see whether the kid can discriminate between the good and the bad demonstration. Remember not to ask the kid any questions in this stage, always just tell them the answer in order not to confuse them.

4)Practice- The kid can start doing it, slowly shape the kid's action

5)Feedback- provide feedback after the practice, make it more positive and if the kid is not good enough, we can make him practice again.

6)Consequences (optional)- a reinforcer but most often we don't really need it cause by knowing the skill, it's already an intrinsic motivation.