#6 Elizabeth Haughton - Pinpointing

Elizabeth Haughton is a highly recognized educational consultant, the Founder of the Haughton Learning Center, and recipient of both the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and the ‘Our Teacher Award’ from the Standard Celeration Society.

Elizabeth spent roughly 5 decades of her life helping children using her research-based methods to improve teaching and learning strategies.

It’s a privilege to have Elizabeth back on the show to talk more about her insightful discoveries and learning methods. In this episode, we’ll dive into understanding what pinpointing is and how essential it is in precision teaching as she talks about how she used this method to clearly describe students’ behaviors and developed practice plans to help them.

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HIGHLIGHTS

1:53 Understanding what pinpointing is.

11:26 Important parts or elements to describe what you are observing and recording.

14:00 An example of what a learning statement might be.

26:45 Examples and non-examples of pinpoints

33:57 How Elizabeth establishes a practice plan for a kid.

40:05 How to use countoons to describe a behavior.

56:40 How they discovered the Learning Channels using the Performance Matrix by Eric Haughton.

58:32 Combining channels to practice and find out more effective ways.

1:00 Kid’s struggle with the Think channel and strategies to overcome them.

 

RESOURCES

Learn more about the Haughton Learning Center on Elizabeth’s website: https://haughtonlearningcenter.com/

 

Learn more about foundation skills and applications at http://www.fluency.org

 

Fluency and Remembering by Carl Binder: http://haughtonlearningcenter.com/carls_article.html 

 

Check out Eric Haughton’s Performance Matrix / Planning Matrix: http://binde1.verio.com/wb_fluency.org/Unpublished/Haughton1980b.pdf

 

QUOTES

 

16:28 “Studying channels is a lot for some people, it confuses them but I think if they understand that there's about seven intake channels, and there's hundreds of outputs but those two things are important for the pinpoint.”

 

23:59 “Do it yourself. Do it with a student if you're working with a complicated student.”

 

32:34 “No matter how much I pinpointed, the key to Terry Harris's success, besides us knowing the chart and the pinpoints and the things in precision teaching is practice.”

 

52:04 “Being as clear as we can about that movement cycle or the skills description and then multi-channeling it, rather than get uptight, people need to have fun with it.”

1:04:00 “A scientist is exploring all the time. We all need to be scientists and explore and use our observations to see what's there. I mean, we know so much he but we still have so much to learn.”