The best solution for both situations is to increase the number of positive adult interactions the students have in the school and create more specific behavior expectations and consequences. Both schools need more clear-cut consequences for student misbehavior. If students are not acting appropriately, a behavioral matrix should be used to help redirect behavior. If one is not already in place, gathering a specific behavioral committee with various administrators, counselors, and teachers would be the first step. They would work with students and teachers to create and implement an appropriate matrix and positive behaviors to help students and teachers align their expectations. This can happen at any point in the year.
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This does not cost any money, but does take effort and a few minutes each day in an already packed schedule. They need to check on students who are in the halls and ensure they are using their pass pages. Students will have a positive interaction with the administrators, but also know the consequences for their actions if they have not followed the rules. This will also help keep teachers more accountable for using the pass page. To add another layer of accountability, each teacher could be responsible on a certain day of the week for taking a brief walk during their plan period to see who is in the hall and why. Some will participate and others probably will not, but it would be the next step to improving the hallway situation for free. If teachers are consistently in the halls and are encouraged to interact with students who are in the hallways, they will also see if certain students are habitual “hall roamers.” This can increase positive interactions and hold students accountable as …show more content…
Having a meeting to discuss expectations and consequences (behavioral matrix) with the morning and lunch groups is important to create and maintain consistency. This meeting should happen a number of times throughout the year to set expectations and follow-up on problem areas. An administrator could sectioned the cafeteria into “coverage” areas to help students and adults create more meaningful relationships and consistency. The adults will know what is expected of the students and be able to praise and correct them when needed. Other than a potential added teacher stipend or two during lunch, no other money is needed for this
There are four general goals for student misbehavior, which include attention, power, revenge, and avoidance-of-failure. In the past, I have responded to all of these goals for misbehavior in the same or similar ways. I would give verbal warnings, and if that didn’t work I would raise my voice/yell, have the student sit in the hallway, send the student to the office, call home, and/or assign an after school detention. These consequences would usually temporarily stop a behavior, but they were not long-term solutions. I now know that there are very different strategies that should be used to deal with students who are misbehaving according to what their goal is.
Minority students attending elite and prestigious universities are more often faced by notions of "microaggressions" than their rich counterparts leading to conflict between both groups on campus and spilling over into the rest of U.S. society. With the definition of microaggression differing between both groups of students, the minority students believe that the universities and the traditional student body they serve cannot or fail to identify problems being felt by the minority students. This lack of communication has led to polarizing identity politics and a sense of an "us vs. them" mentality on both sides, where the conflict caused by "microaggression" has reached an all time high after the
This year the administration has split the lunch schedules by what teacher you have instead of grade level. With this being said this splits up half of the grade levels for ‘A lunch’ and ‘B lunch’ which is where the problem begins.
Lunch time is a time to take a break from the day and recharge for the rest of the day. In elementary schools it is also a time to meet up with your friends and socialize. Lunch time is not only time to eat. It is important for the mental, social, and emotional health of the children as well. Children need them chance to unwind and destress, which is promoted by socializing with friends. “Lunch should be an enjoyable part of the school day for students, offering a break from classroom work and a place to relax, socialize, and become nourished.”("The Cafeteria: Creating a Positive Mealtime Experience", 2013) Lunch time should be done in a setting where
Over the course of creating a critical reflective journal there is one experience that stands out. It was a visit to George Washington Community School, an urban school in Indianapolis Indiana, to observe the role of teacher preparation. During this visit my intent was to observe the concept of formal, common, and frozen registry for communication between teachers, students, staff, and community. During this exposure I was able to see discipline in a school setting in new and revealing way.
Even though a fear of the cafeteria ladies is that they will not know how much food to make each day, students should bring their own lunch and the teachers can create a system to solve this problem. The staff believes that if students bring sack lunches every day, or change it every other day, then they will not be able to prepare the right amount of food. This problem can be solved in many ways though. At Lost Creek Elementary, we highlighted our names on the attendance sheet if we wanted to eat the school lunch the next day. This could easily be changed a little bit to a high school setting. The first period teacher can take attendance like usual and then ask everyone if they will be eating today’s lunch, or tomorrow's lunch. Whatever choice works better for the cafeteria. That way, the staff knows about how many to cook for. Each day, the teacher can announce what the next lunch is going to be, so students can prepare and decide if they want to eat that lunch or not. Another way to guess how many kids to cook for is to take a count of how many students eat that lunch each time. They can keep track of how many kids eat that meal and use it to estimate the amount for the next time. Hoops exchanged information about how she keeps production records of how many kids she fed that day and how much food she made. That would be similar to what they could
We cannot have a school lunch reform where the needs of all students are not met. If only some, or less than the majority, of students are receiving the nutritional values they need, we need to adapt the reform to further achieve better standards for school lunch programs. For example, after a student finishes their meal, schools could offer a second serving of protein to their students. In effect, this will add a higher amount of calories to the students’ daily diets.
When formulating a plan, it is important to remember that students do not exist in a vacuum. What is a problem behavior in one class may not be a problem in another; problem behavior from the home may never manifest in school. A key means of decreasing the frequency and intensity of problem behavior and reducing the need for more intrusive intervention procedures is enhancing a student's quality of life.
“How can there be a God in a world full of suffering?” This question, left unanswered, is enough to turn a potential believer or one of weak faith away from Christianity. The suffering of the world cannot be denied, especially living in a time preceded by the bloodiest century in human history. Furthermore, there is no simple, neat answer to account for the presence of pain, misery, and death within the world, while also accounting for the limitless power of a God. Malcolm Guite provides a reassuring poem in response to this issue, entitled “Jesus falls the third time,” central to his collection of poetry, Sounding the Seasons, in he describes the suffering of mankind and Christ.
I can guarantee that punishment is not the answer. Punishment is a suggestion made by reformers (Postman, 311), but it is the absolute worst decision that can be made in our schools. When students get out of school suspension (OSS), they treat it as a vacation day and most of them use it to play video games, and they still get to make up the work they missed. A countless amount of kids in my high school did exactly that. On another side of that, punishment is giving a student attention. Not a great kind of attention, but attention nonetheless. If a student really wants attention, it won’t matter to them what kind. If something is awry in the classroom, it should be ignored. Usually in situations where students are causing a disturbance, it is because they crave the attention. Punishing them is falling right into their
There are various strategies which can be put in place to help support and promote positive behaviour within schools. School policies outline expectations required by school of how they wish their students to behave. And outline some strategies and consequences of actions. As soon as the new school academic year begins, boundaries and behaviour expecations should be made clear by the school.
Assurance for students and others concerned regarding the breakfast program mostly relies around the time consuming aspect of the program. An article in American Teacher stated that in many schools teachers expressed concerns about the logistics of the program, inc...
time for student misbehavior. By meeting the basic needs of my students mutual respect will
Before such things can be implemented, there is some specific ground work and strategies that must be done within the schools before situations or dealt with and handled. In this groundwork, principals are vital in the success of the program they implement in their schools (Ballard, Argus & Remley, 1999). They are the conductors of each category needed in a successful program. Principals must hold students and staff accountable for their roles in changing the climate of the school and they must allow for the time and manpower implementing a new program will take. Gil (2002, p. 73) explains that first a solid code of conduct must be in place and operating smoothly. These clearly stated rules are to be communicated to all students and staff what the expectation is for behavior and they must be “enforced without
Of all the variables in a comprehensive literature review classroom management had the largest effect on student achievement. Therefore, teachers need to provide clear purpose and strong guidance regarding both academics and student behavior. Teachers and students need to collaborate as a team sharing concerns about the needs and opinions of others. Teachers should be aware of high-needs students and have a plethora of specific techniques for meeting some of their needs. Positive support from the parents, administration, support personnel and the community to bring about positive changes in student behavior is also necessary. Teachers can make a modification; they can construct a community that nurtures and develops social and emotional skills as well as academic