#11 - The Butterfly Effect with Jack Auman

2022-06-24

Precision teachers, according to Jack Auman, have an impact on students similar to the Butterfly Effect because of the small changes that can have enormous positive outcomes. In this episode, Jack talks about his journey to Precision Teaching after he met Steve Graf. From scorekeeping at a baseball game together to the adventures that they had together. He goes on to discuss Steve's brilliant ideas and how he used his own programming knowledge to bring them to life. Join our The ABA and PT Podcast Facebook Group to get ...

Precision teachers, according to Jack Auman, have an impact on students similar to the Butterfly Effect because of the small changes that can have enormous positive outcomes.

In this episode, Jack talks about his journey to Precision Teaching after he met Steve Graf. From scorekeeping at a baseball game together to the adventures that they had together. He goes on to discuss Steve's brilliant ideas and how he used his own programming knowledge to bring them to life.

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HIGHLIGHTS

2:03 How Jack's father instilled a love of math in him at a young age.

13:34 Three strategies that worked for him as a math teacher.

16:05 A little background on how he became interested in precision teaching.

27:20 Combocoach's goal and design.

32:02 The Typing Coach concept.

43:28 The PracticeSheeter.

49:05 What he discovered while assisting with Og's archives.

52:48 Steve thinking and looking at things differently.

RESOURCES

Learn more about Steve Graf and his works at https://www.stevegraf.org/

Auman Subjects SAFMED By Auman 2010 (*Google Spreadsheets Link)

QUOTES

08:02 “He [Prof. Frank Ciotola] brought to life a whole new dimension of math, where you could take an idea that you could have, and take the negation, and work with that negation with the laws of logic, and make a whole new geometry that was valid and applicable.”

19:39 “Steve had all these marvelous ideas, and I was lucky enough to learn enough programming to incorporate his ideas into our games. Checking my timeline, here's where we bridge into precision teaching or the standard celebration chart.”

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