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6/19/2018  |   9:45 AM - 10:45 AM   |  Using Positive Behavior Supports and Gaming Principles to Exponentially Extend Students’ Motivation to Learn   |  Cascade B

Using Positive Behavior Supports and Gaming Principles to Exponentially Extend Students’ Motivation to Learn

Positive behavior supports are typically presented as a collection of methods to simply manage, or sustain student behaviors at basic levels, and in support of civil cultures in classroom settings. However, with the inclining demands of today’s world, human performance must incline at the same rate to match them. If human performance must be higher, then societies’ methods, including school-based practices, must help learners to wring more from their academic performance. The common approach of managing and sustaining behavior is appropriate, but falls far short of using positive behavior support principles and techniques to draw from students their full interests and capabilities in the game of learning. In addition to positive behavior supports, gaming principles have also received substantial attention for improving, and even peaking human performance. In this session, participants will explore behavioral and gaming principles and techniques to help students’ unleash the 30% of interest, effort and ingenuity they hold back, or never spend on their own learning.

  • Given an opportunity for group discussion, participants will identify future skills requiring today’s students to learn more...and learn it quicker to meet the demands of the future. Participants will share their ideas with the entire group.
  • Given an electronic polling system, participants will identify behavioral and gaming principles they may employ to recruit in their students, substantial increases in motivation to learn.
  • Given time to plan for implementation, participants will identify strategies to support students in identifying and selecting motivational principles for self-deployment to increase their attainment of higher levels of knowledge and skill.

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David Forbush (), Center for Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education, david.forbush@usu.edu;
Dr. Forbush has provided 25 years of service in a variety of educational settings. Presently, he is director of the Utah Professional Development Network at Utah State University. Dr. Forbush served as a special education LEA in Idaho and Utah. He was recognized in 2013 as Special Education Director of the Year by the Utah chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children. He has prepared undergraduate teachers, and graduate researchers at Utah State University. He regards himself as an “outcomes junkie,” and “education performance engineer,” and a


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Leslie Buchanan (), Utah Professional Development Network , leslie.buchanan@usu.edu;
Leslie Buchanan is the Associate Director for the Utah Professional Development Network. During her nearly 25 years working in education, she has worked as an elementary school teacher, a teacher of students with significant and sensory disabilities, and as administrator and project director of programs for students who are deaf-blind. She has been involved in the leadership of the Council of Exceptional Children's Division of Visual Impairment and Deafblindness, and the Utah Chapter of the Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired. Leslie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Education, Master's Degree in Special Education, and an Administrative/Supervisory License from Utah State University.


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