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A How-to: Prompting 101
Prompting Understanding and applying prompts is an important component of a Safety-Care trainer's skillset. A prompt is a supplemental stimulus that guides the trainee to the correct response. When teaching any verbal or physical competency, a trainer may apply a...
Fantasy Sports: The Great Socially Distanced Social Activity
What? Why? If you’re not familiar with fantasy sports (if you skip ahead to the next section) the basic concept is you get together with a group of friends, coworkers, family members, etc., pick a sport (football seems to be the most popular/easiest), and form a...
Traveling with Safety as a Priority
According to TSA, on March 28th, 2021, 1,574,228 traveled within The United States of America. This is the busiest travel day since the Coronavirus Pandemic started in 2020. This is 1,394,226 more travelers than there were on March 28th, 2020. Although the feeling of...
Creating and Maintaining Healthy Behavior Patterns
I don’t know about you, but every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is grab my phone and scroll through Instagram just to catch up on the latest cat videos. This pattern of behavior probably sounds familiar, right? Throughout the hustle and bustle of our...
Setting Up the Learning Environment: Tools and Strategies for Successful Instruction
In our Safety Care curriculum, we focus heavily on the importance of our physical environment(s) and how modifications and intentional placement of materials can help prevent and/or decrease negative situations from occurring, to begin with. More importantly, it also...
How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep During the Pandemic
Why we may not be getting the sleep we need: COVID-19 has erupted into our world and brought with it a whole host of fears, anxieties, and stressors. Those anxieties, fears, and stressors make it much harder, or in some cases, nearly impossible to get a good...
Reinforcement MythBusters
The concept of rewarding a person for desired behavior is not uncommon, as there is a large body of research supporting the effectiveness of reinforcement for behavior change. However, many parents, teachers, caregivers, babysitters, refuse the idea of rewarding...
Group Contingencies: A simple method for decreasing the use of cell phones in a High school classroom
Cell phone usage can negatively impact academic performance. In July of 2018, the French government passed a law banning cell phones in schools (CNN, 2018). This law arrived on the heels of several studies detailing just how much cell phone use negatively impacted...
Organizational Resilience: Understanding burnout
Burnout-related turnover is a complex, systemic problem that is highly disruptive to organizational functioning. Preventing and managing burnout may contribute to an organization’s success and efficacy. This post discusses how to recognize and understand burnout as...
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