Individual Student Study TemplatePart 2: Self- Responsibility

DUE BY END OF WEEK 2

Alyssandra Jaquith
March 27, 2016

Goals for Student Growth

1. Based on your learning in Week 2, identify one or two goals for the student related to
developing greater self-responsibility.

Interestingly, something happened this week that exemplified some of the difficulties I was
having with this student when it comes to responsibility. We have a weekly day for desk clean
out in which all students take everything out of their desk, throw away any loose papers or
unnecessary items, and wipe down the inside of their desk with a Clorox wipe. Students have
different colored folders for different subjects. In particular, the green folder is where students
store their reading work and different phonics packets they are working on. This students green
folder had ripped, so some of the papers were coming out of it. Instead of perhaps asking me
for a new folder, asking for some tape, or taking this folder home, this student threw out this
folder with all of the papers inside of it. She came up to me to tell me I dont have a green
folder after she had thrown it out. I felt frustrated in the moment because she was not taking
responsibility for her own learning and realizing that her green folder had so many important
papers in it.

Two goals I would like to implement for this student are the following:
- Better understand the reasoning behind the need for urgency in the classroom
- Increase the positive interactions she has with her peers

Plan of Action
1. Describe a plan of action that will move the student toward achievement of the goal(s)
outlined above. Explain how you will use strategies presented in the Week 2 resources
and the steps you will follow when implementing this plan.

- First I plan to speak to this student in a more positive manner. This will reduce stress
and improve my relationship with this student (Charles, 154). I often jump to getting
frustrated and irritated with this student. I plan to now, before responding to something
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 that has happened, take a deep breath and make sure I respond in a manner that is
appropriate.
- Next, when discussing a potential misbehavior, I will follow the questioning sequence
(Charles, 148). This will help the student to follow the logical step-by-step process to
better understand their behavior and why it was potentially incorrect. I will be careful to
say question 1 what are you doing? in a way that is meaningful, and not meant as a
warning.
- Finally, I am going to stress responsibility, rather than rules (Charles, 155). Although
my rules are already written in a positive way and have been really great in transforming
my room, I want this student to feel invested in them and in her conduct.

2. Describe the impact you expect this plan to have on the students level of self-
responsibility.

First and foremost I would expect my relationship with this student to strengthen because I am
speaking with her in a positive manner. She will realize that I am not angry with her or the
decisions that she makes, rather, I want her to learn about the reasoning behind why certain
choices are the right choices and certain choices are the wrong choices in school.

I also think that using the question sequence will help this student to better understand the
reasons behind her own behavior. Not only this, conversing with this student around these
questions will help me to better understand her reasons behind different behaviors as well. I
hope that the student will make a connection between her behavior and my response to her
behavior. This will help her to understand the reason why urgency is important in a classroom
and why I want her to move quickly throughout the room.

Finally, I think speaking to this student in a positive manner and reinforcing the importance of
responsibility will help this student to build more positive relationships with her peers because
they will see how I am modeling positive interactions with this student. Hopefully as this
students behavior improves, this will also improve her interactions with others.

Reflection on Implementation (Complete this section only if you chose to implement this part
of your Individual Student Study.)

(Not implementing this week)

References

Charles, C. M. (2008). Todays best classroom management strategies: Paths

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 to positive discipline. Boston, MA: Pearson.

Lemov, D. (2010). Teach like a champion: 49 techniques that put students on

the path to college. (1st ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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