Chaining Data Collection form

A behavior chain (chaining) is a type of teaching procedure used to connect individual behaviors to form more complex responses. Any action that requires more than one response or behavior to emit, can be taught via a chaining procedure.

A complex behavior such as washing hands, tying shoes, or brushing teeth, is made up of many small individual steps. As an instructor, you can teach these small, individual steps in sequence so the learner can complete the larger complex behavior.

The 3 types of chaining that we will focus on today are forward chaining, backward chaining, and total task presentation.