Being a teacher in the regular education program, I have seen so many behavioral problems. What I also saw was the same kids getting in trouble repeatedly. We all obviously know that it is not an uncommon occurrence for there to be behavioral issues on a campus. But where the true issues lie is for there to be behavioral issues to the smallest caliber so that the student can get attention just so that he or she can be placed out of the classroom. This is my opportunity to be able to analyze, from an administrator’s standpoint, what is truly going on with these kids and what is the school not doing as a whole to be proactive against student behavior?
This is a very critical issue because with behavior problems comes a lack of time in classrooms learning, which also takes away from a teacher's time to teach, reduces administrators time from instructional, administrative, and community leadership. More importantly, repeat offenses occur to where the kids want to be in ISS instead of the regular classroom.
My proposed action research deals with student behavior and how to best fix it through positive support systems implementation in our schools. The purpose of this study is to determine and develop a positive behavior support system and program that uses best practices to deter negative student behavior in the school setting including classrooms and any campus grounds. I also want to be able to restructure the ISS program to where no student would ever want to detention again. The importance of this action research is to administrators, classroom teachers, para-professionals, and staff a series of strategies to prevent negative student behavior from interrupting a positive atmosphere for students to learn in the upcoming school year.
An action research project on student behavior is extremely important. The reasons on why the student is misbehaving can help the educator focus on what resources the student may be lacking. If we help those students with behavior problems early then it can set the stage for success in later grades.
ReplyDeleteYou have chosen a very important topic for your research project. Statistics show that many of these students that do not experience success at school will not be functional members of our communities many will not be able to keep a job, turn to crime and or become dependent upon public assistance. If we can help them become successful now we will change their lives and save money in the long run. Good luck, I look forward to reading your research.
ReplyDeleteAt my campus, we have several students that continue to be sent ISS on a consistent basis. To prevent the same students from attending ISS, my campus has decide to send them to saturday school. They have to attend from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. During that time, they have to complete missing assignments from their subjects. If they are caught up with their assignments,; then, they have to complete packets that involve with student behavior. At the end of the day, they have to pick up trash throughout the campus. I am making a hypothetical. I would say about a third of those students do not return to ISS.
ReplyDeleteThank you all very much for posting to by blog. I will continue to work hard on this and hopefully get some really good ideas and research that I can share with everyone. Bailey, I have a question for you. What if the kids do not go to Saturday school? My understanding is that you cannot make them go to Saturday school, unfortunately. So if they do not attend Saturday school then what is the next process? I would really appreciate an answer to this because this would greatly help with my research.
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