Goal/Objective: to research and
find a motivator (incentive) or strategy that rewards a student for positive behavior and
changing a negative behavior to positive.
Action
Steps
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Person(s)
Responsible
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Timeline:
Start/End
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Needed
Resources
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Evaluation
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Examining the work:
Determine the topic of my action research plan. Meet with my site supervisor and discuss
what strategies would work best to incentives, rewards or solutions to
behavior problems in the classroom.
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Lisa Grote
Dr. Arnoldo Barrera
Anna Guizar
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March
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Internet searches
School data
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Data collected
Interview with site
supervisor
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Analyzing Data:
Create survey for teachers
and students to determine incentives, rewards and strategies. Collect the data from the surveys and
decide on strategies.
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Lisa Grote
Dr. Arnoldo Barrera
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March/May
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Behavior incident
reports information
Teacher and student
surveys
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Data from incident
reports
Data and strategies
collected from surveys
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Developing a Deeper
Understanding:
Research internet for
information on incentives and rewards for good behavior and how to improve
negative behavior.
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Lisa Grote
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March/May
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Internet
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Personal Notes
Strategies and
incentives from internet
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Engaging in
Self-Reflection:
Post information on my
blog. Meet with site supervisor for
any issues or problems.
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Lisa Grote
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March/May
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Internet
Site Supervisor
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Feedback from site
supervisor, blog comments, and peer review of data
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Exploring Programmatic
Patterns: Survey teachers to find what
strategies or incentives, if successful or not, they used in their
classroom. Survey the students to see
what things would motivate them toward good behavior in the classroom. Identify the students with the most student
behavior incidents from the office.
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Lisa Grote
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March/May
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Teachers
Students
Office clerk
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Personal Notes
Survey data
collected
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Determining Direction:
Work Collaboratively with
site supervisor. Survey teachers and
students to determine their input on direction. Research the internet for more ideas and
strategies. Create a realistic
timeline to collect quality data.
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Lisa Grote
Dr. Arnoldo Barrera
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March/May
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Office Clerk
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Percentage of
students sent to office for behavior
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Taking Action for School
Improvement: Work collaboratively with teachers to help them use the
information from my research to improve behavior in their classrooms and help
cut down on the number of students sent to the office for disruptions.
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Lisa Grote
Anna Guizar
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March/May
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Behavior Data
Action Plan
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Personal Notes
Data Collected
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Sustaining Improvement:
Share the results of my action research with my colleagues and the
principal. If it is very successful
possibly other schools could benefit from this research.
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Dr. Arnoldo Barrera
or principal for 2012-2013 school year
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2012-2013
School Year
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Teachers
Principal
Asst. Principal
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Share results
Continue to monitor
successful results
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As a special education teacher I have found that a BIP is very important. On several occasions I have had students in my classes that I thought was on a BIP. Once the student had cursed me out and I did some looking into it I found out that she had a cooling off period but wasn't on a BIP. I think BIP's should be developed to help the student, but not used as a crutch to allow them to get away with inappropriate behavior.
ReplyDeleteAs teachers, we are constantly looking for ideas we can use as incentives to promote good behavior. As you stated, you plan to research for incentives. Our school uses Kagan cooperative learning. You might want to look them up for some of their free articles: http://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/research_and_rationale/
ReplyDeleteThank you Donna! I will definitely look into that and see if this is something I can use.
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