Chapter 12: Intention
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Behavior Analysis for Teachers. Julie S. Vargas. 2009. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. A groundbreaking textbook on the science of teaching.

The Teacher’s Craft: The 10 Essential Skills of Effective Teaching. Paul Chance. 2006. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. A behavioral guide to using evidence-based best practices for teaching. If you are a school-teacher, this book will make you proud of what you do.

“A Dolphin-Human Fishing Cooperative in Brazil.” Karen Pryor, Jon Lindbergh, Scott Lindbergh, and Raquel Milano. 1990. Marine Mammal Science 6:1.

Don’t Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training. Rev. ed. Karen Pryor. 1999. Audio, 6 CD set, read by the author.

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Karen Pryor Academy (online and hands-on instruction for trainers) www.karenpryoracademy.com

Guide Dogs for the Blind, San Rafael, California www.guidedogs.com

TAGteach International LLC www.tagteach.com; www.tagteach.com/autism

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“Karen Pryor shows how clicker training has solved problems that traditional training methods could not solve, or worse, that those methods caused. The clarity of her descriptions enables the reader to start basic clicker training right away. Moreover, the book helps readers gain awareness of their own ways of controlling others. Any time criticism, jerking, or punishing can be replaced with clicker training methods, everyone benefits. The more that people follow the principles in this book, the better off the world will be.”

Julie Vargas
author of Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching