Week 12: Diving into Inquiry

As I have continued with my inquiry and working through my doubts, I have discovered how much I am still learning. By focusing now on why things aren’t working and how I can change this idea I had. As I worked thought my data analysis, I have found out a lot about myself and behavior management.

I saw this plan and thought it would definitely work. I though just because I was individualizing something she would she the attention she wanted and her behavior would slowly get better. But as I quickly learned, not all children will have the same reaction to a change and to correcting behavior. 

I            believe that if I had maybe tried to focus just on her attitude and defiance or her on-task behavior, instead of both at the same time, I could have been more successful. By conquering one thing first, I believe it may have helped to focus in on one behavior and then the next.

This week my teacher made my inquiry student move her clip for reading a book during a whole-group lesson. She was not paying attention to what was being taught. Later in that day, she was doing the same thing so I gave her an orange sticker. She looked up at me and sighed aloud and slammed the book in her desk. She was still defiant to change but at least she was paying attention. This seemed ok until my teacher thought of something. She brought it to my attention that I should focus on a positive time she decided to read, and give her a positive sticker for it. This was because it was a big deal for her to be choosing to read on her own and we don’t want her to think it is a bad thing and punish her for reading. This made so much sense to me, and made time think that maybe a more positive only reward system may have worked better? Then I would only be drawing attention to her positive choices and behavior. I want to see if this will make any difference, or if this students really just needs something else to help her make better choices and change her behavior. Either way, I have finally realized that even if my inquiry is not successful, I am still learning through the process.