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Today I’m sharing a small excerpt from podcast number 27 which is an interview with Theresa McKeon discussing TAGTeach. TAG is an acronym for Teaching with Acoustic Guidance. One of the things that Theresa used with the gymnasts was the clicker. In the beginning, it was just this fun toy. They all wanted to use it. They all wanted to, what we call TAG or put that acoustic mark to the other person. And then one day one of the kids said, “My mom uses that with our dog and she said, you can’t train us like a dog.” Theresa said, “Well, I am actually training you as a respectful teacher because all we were doing was deciding as teachers what we wanted and then, in a very quick nonemotional way, letting the student know that they had performed the skill and then said, yes, that’s what we want.”
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