It takes a strong-minded human to appreciate a strong-minded dog. -- Mary Webber

Verbal Marker?

Here is great blog on TAG - clicker training people.

http://tagteach.blogspot.com/search/label/verbal%20marker


Here is more information about TAGing.


http://www.clickertraining.com/node/2383

Using a Perch to Teach Heeling Position

"No matter how celebrated the trainer is, there are always things that don't fit with our own personalities, our dogs, and our clients." -- Mia Dunn

Persistence is a canine characteristic. -- Phyllis Dorrough

Tag Teaching

Here is a collection of videos that show TAG or clicker training people.

http://www.youtube.com/user/tagteacher

Tagging (Teaching with Acoustical Guidance) is clicking for people.
The website says TAGteach is a new way of teaching using positive
reinforcement with a click sound marker to identify successful
performance. We all know there is nothing new about using a clicker.

http://www.tagteach.com/

A tag point is what you are clicking the the person for. I click my
seven year old for various things, but unlike Red and Blue - my dogs -, I tell her what I am
clicking her for - and I don't give her a treat. She works to make me click her. We started out with me passing out M&M but it interrupted the flow. Then I went to me dropping an M&M in to a cup to give to her later and she was not interested in having them. She just wanted to keep
working.

So teacher give their student a string of beads and the student moves a bead from one end of the string to the other.

In my dog training classes I'll give the student a tag point like
Still hands or Treat for position after explaining what I'd like the
person to work on and say their name as the click (since I have four
students at a time in class and all will have different tag points.)

Adult clicker trainers tend to resist being clicked (treated like a
dog) which is why I use a verbal, and use praise instead of a cookie
or a ball toss. ;-)

Look at these videos. WARNING they are using clickers for people. It
drives my dogs crazy. YMMV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q4xQ83FI2s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ99KWRE3Ck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx56E7dNyWQ&feature=related

I also have been using it (with a clicker) with my seven year old's basketball
team. I worked one on one with each kid and a parent teaching the
parent to tag their kid to improve their drilling skills and footwork. The girls
have gotten very good. If the season was longer and we did not have so
much to cover, I'd get the kids tagging each other.

Also read this article about TAGing teenage dog trainers.

http://www.clickertraining.com/node/2341

Stressed Brains Rely on Habit

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55873/

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