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Video Modeling to Teach Food Preparation Skills – Making French Fries

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Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a portable DVD player as a prompting device for teaching how to make french fries to young adults with disabilities.

Settings and Materials

Settings

Apartment kitchen

Materials

  • Portable DVD player, task analysis, french fries, baking sheet, scissors, oven mitts, timer, spatula, plate
 

Content Taught

  • Using a task analysis, students will be taught how to properly make french fries.

Teaching Procedures

  • Create a video using a video model to show the steps for the making french fries task on a digital video camera (see Kellems et al., 2016 below).
  • Tell the student to “make the french fries.” Wait 3 seconds for the student to play the video. If they do not start the video, prompt them again.
  • Allow the students to watch the video, press pause, and begin the step within 3 seconds of the video ending.
  • Record whether the student completes the step correctly, completes the step incorrectly, or does not complete the step.
  • If the student does not complete the step within 1 minute, complete it for them (out of view) and then prompt them to press “play” to view the next step.
  • Provide general verbal praise every 3 steps completed correctly.
  • Repeat until all steps of making french fries are complete.

Task Analysis: Making French Fries

  1. Get out french fries
  2. Get out baking sheet
  3. Turn oven on to "Bake 450"
  4. Cut open bag (with scissors)
  5. Pour french fries onto baking sheet
  6. Put on oven mitts
  7. Put (baking sheet) in oven
  8. Take off oven mitts
  9. Turn timer to 5 minutes
  10. Turn off beeping time
  11. Put on oven mitts
  12. Take (baking sheet) out of oven
  13. Cool on rack (put on rack)
  14. Take off oven mitts
  15. Turn oven dial to "off"
  16. Get spatula
  17. Scoop up french fries
  18. Put french fries on plate
  19. Enjoy (stop)

Evaluation

Student performance is evaluated by calculating a percentage of the steps the student completed correctly (i.e., began the step within 3 seconds after video ends, completed step within 1 minute).

Lesson Starter Based On:

Mechling, L.C., & Gustafon, M. (2009). Comparison of the effects of static picture and video prompting on completion of cooking related tasks by student with moderate intellectual disabilities. Exceptionality, 17, 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/09362830902805889

For Developing a Video Model:

Kellems, R. O., Mourra, K., Morgan, R. L., Riesen, T., Glasgow, M., & Huddleston, R. (2016). Video modeling and prompting in practice: Teaching cooking skills. Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 39(3), 185-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/2165143416651718

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