Inquiry Plan Update 2

I have recieved consent to video all the students in my classroom. Tomorrow I am planning to video a writing lesson without using all the techniques that I, along with my behavior specialist have decided to implement. On Thursday, when I teach this similar writing lesson again, I plan to video the lesson while implementing the behavior modification techniques. Following the lesson, I plan to have the students watch both videos. We will then create a venn diagram comparing and contrasting how instruction is the same, and how it is different, depending on the behavior of the students. I also plan to have a class discussion with the students leading it. I would like for them to come up with reasons that better behavior benefits them. I want them to realize that this is for them, and not for me. I think that behavior is like any other lesson we teach students. They need to relate it to their own life and see how it will benefit them in order to make it effective.

Inquiry Plan update 1

This week I have started working on getting consent for all of my students to be video taped. At the beginning of the year, the entire school sends out forms for permission to video tape, students to use the internet, be photographed, and have their work published. I have two students who's parents signed "no" for video taping. I am in the process of trying to get those parents to give consent for this project, because my pre-assessment involves video taping the entire class so that we can compare their behavior at the beginning and the end. I want the students to be able to see their behavior, and discuss how it changes during the process. Although I have begun using some of my behavior modification plans, I want to save most of them for after my initial video tape, so that the students will have a chance to really see the difference. I am hoping to have permission from the other parents by Friday.