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Certification
Masters Degree
We are supporting nine of our full time CABAS® teachers to complete a distance Masters Degree in High Incidence Disabilities from Nicholls State University, New Orleans, USA. This is a 2 year course focusing on teaching as applied behaviour analysis. This course gives our teachers the pre-requisites to sit the BCBA exam (see: www.BACB.com for further information) as they acquire all of the supervision requirements of the exam while working at Jigsaw.
We have five spaces for new teachers to join our team and start on the Masters course in September 2010. Another cohort will join the course in September 2011, so it may be of interest to you to work at the school first and then to join the Masters programme the following academic year.
In order to apply for the Masters degree, candidates are required to have a Bachelors degree.
Starting salary: £14,902 per annum (may vary subject to experience). Bonuses and pay increases: related to on-going study at Jigsaw.
The school operates across three terms, with holiday entitlement totalling 44 days plus 8 bank holidays per year (please refer to term dates).
Further details and application packs are available via e:mail:
rachelturnbull@jigsawschool.co.uk or telephone: 01483 273874
The Jigsaw CABAS® School
Building 21, Dunsfold Park, Stovolds Hill, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8TB
The Jigsaw School is a UK registered charity No. 1075464
Click on this link for a short powerpoint presentation about the MASTERS DEGREE
Staff Training at Jigsaw
The role and influence of the teaching staff are crucial factors in the promotion of high quality learning and teaching and the school performance management policy supports continuing professional development for all staff.
The quality of teaching is supported in the following ways:
· CABAS® Board Certification of professional expertise in teaching
· Teacher observations and Teacher Performance Rate and Accuracy (TPRA)
· Continuing Professional Development for all teachers
CABAS® Board Certification of professional expertise in teaching
Each member of staff has an individually tailored set of training objectives designed to increase his/her behavioural expertise. The CABASÒ teaching ranks are organised as follows:
- CABAS® Teacher I
- CABAS® Teacher II
- CABAS® Master Teacher
The training consists of working through a set of modules encompassing three repertoires associated with the strategic science of teaching. These repertoires are:
1. Verbal behaviour about the science (concepts, principles and terminology).
2. Contingency-shaped teaching skills (accurate and fluent teaching practices).
3. Verbally-mediated scientific repertoire (strategic and analytic problem-solving).
There are further ranks within the CABASÒ system for teachers to progress to higher levels of behavioural expertise.
There are three behaviour analyst ranks:
- CABAS® Assistant Behaviour Analyst
- CABAS® Associate Behaviour Analyst
- CABAS® Senior Behaviour Analyst
The ranks have three principle functions:
1. To recognise and reward the development of expertise that improves the prognosis for the pupils in the schools as a function of the expertise of the person holding the rank.
2. To identify some minimal and standard expertise that can be associated with an individual holding a particular rank.
3. To influence other components of the CABAS® system (i.e. reinforce mentoring relationships and research activities).
The 10 modules associated with these ranks are singular rather than tripartite as are the teacher ranks. They consist of the following generic categories:
1. Scholarship Expansion
2. New Conceptual Contributions
3. New Research Findings
4. Direct and Systematic Replications
5. Peer Teaching.
Each rank consists of a particular arrangement of the five categories as modules. This allows for individual differences and encourages creative management of the contingencies for advancing scholarship and creative contributions.
There are three further research scientist ranks:
- CABAS® Assistant Research Scientist
- CABAS® Associate Research Scientist
- CABAS® Senior Research Scientist
These three ranks are linked to the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals achieved.
Teacher observations and the TPRA
The senior staff carry out regular teacher observations on all the teaching staff using a standardised observation form. The delivery of the curriculum is also monitored through the TPRA. This is an observational procedure to collect data on learner and teacher responding and to convert responses to rates of teacher and learner behaviour.
Continuing Professional Development Profiles
The school’s Performance Management Policy describes the process of continuing professional development that supports each member of staff with their current expertise and sets a planned programme of development that includes the CABAS® teaching ranks, training in National Curriculum and associated strategies, training to support school policies and procedures and other training to develop knowledge and expertise in a variety of teaching approaches.
Certificant Registry
Below is a list of all the behaviour analysts who have completed CABAS® ranks while working at The Jigsaw School:
Associate Behaviour Analyst
Emma Hawkins - 23/6/07
Assistant Behaviour Analyst
Emma Hawkins - 6/11/04
Emma Hawkins - 6/11/04
Master Teacher
Emma Hawkins - 1/11/03
Sheri Kingsdorf - 19/5/07
Jackie Charnock - 19/5/09
Jo Phillips - 14/10/09
Teacher II
Emma Hawkins - 29/3/02
Jackie Charnock - 1/11/03
Racheal Eade - 1/11/03
Jo Phillips - 10/1/05
Sheri Kingsdorf - 19/9/06
Emma Payn - 26/2/08
Edi Middleton - 14/7/08
Liz Rougier - 14/7/08
Mariann Szabo - 14/10/09
Adriana Borzecka - 14/10/09
Lauren Jackson - 24/6/10
Lauren Jackson - 24/6/10
Teacher I
Emma Hawkins - 22/9/01
Jackie Charnock - 28/9/02
Racheal Eade - 28/9/02
Jo Phillips - 1/11/03
Emma Payn - 10/1/05
Mariann Szabo - 10/1/05
Kathy Hales - 29/10/05
Anne Lattul - 29/10/05
Emma Marshall - 29/10/05
Sheri Kingsdorf - 10/6/06
Charlie Clark - 19/5/07
Edi Middleton - 19/5/07
Liz Rougier - 19/5/07
Adriana Borzecka - 26/2/08
Sarah Holmes-Arnold - 26/2/08
Vicki Handley - 14/7/08
Gemma Hawes - 14/7/08
Stacy Reilly - 1/11/08
Lauren Jackson - 1/11/08
Emma Martin - 14/10/09
Victoria Fraser - 14/10/09
Katie Foxall - 14/10/09
Jo Highley - 14/10/09
Sarah Statham - 24/6/10
Gemma Harding - 24/6/10
Gemma Harding - 24/6/10
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