A beautiful thing happens when you teach in the most positive ways, with your priority being to create a lesson that will encourage your student to want to stay in the game and that will help your student to get what you are teaching. Your student will not only be able to learn what you are teaching, your student will be a better listener and YOU will be inspired to want to teach more. It is a win-win!
What are three strategies that can help you accomplish this?
Teach in an environment where you have no or minimum competing reinforcers, working up to greater distractions as your pet will continue to focus and do the behavior you are teaching.
Break the behavior down into small enough pieces so that you have plenty of opportunities to reinforce your dog for behavior approximations leading up to the final goal.
Make sure you are using what your pet finds of value as your reinforcers.
