The other evening a friend sent us a link to a video about TAG teaching children (Teaching with Acoustical Guidance). I found this quite interesting since it is essentially using a dog clicker to tell the student when they do something correct. We have used this method with our Greyhounds with lots of success, however, I never thought about using it on people before. So I naturally looked into this a bit more.click3
One thing that I found particularly interesting is, TAG teaching has many uses, including sports training.
In fact if you check the TAGteach International website, you will see successful video examples from a variety of sports.
Now I get exactly what this is. It is positive feedback behavioral teaching. Dogs love it. Apparently some kids and people do to. I’m not knocking it; in fact I generally am in favor of anything that produces positive results. After all, we are all different, learn more and respond better to certain techniques than others.
As a competitive sports fan, Football in particular, this got me thinking about certain athletes who seem to be having trouble learning from their mistakes. Perhaps we could implement the TAG method with them.
Here are some examples:
– Complete a Pass.
Click Click!
– Avoid a sack.
Click Click!
– Hold on to the ball.
Click Click!
– Tackle the guy with the ball.
Click Click!
This could work! In fact we, as fans could participate too. Imagine eighty thousand fans showing up to a game with dog clickers! Though admittedly, this could get confusing since even at home games there are fans supporting the opposing team; but hey, it has intriguing possibilities.
I think I am going to share this teaching method with some coaches in the NFL as well as the personal trainers for some of my under-performing Fantasy Football players.
Perhaps it will help.
Hmmmm . . .
I wonder if it will also work on Husbands and Wives?
What do you think?
Click Click !
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