I'm a psychologist in a school, and lately it seems like students don't want to go to school, don't care about their education, and don't ever turn in homework. I've got a 17-20 page list of students who are failing classes (not just one class, some are failing 5 out of 7). I'm young (25), but when I was in school, I don't remember the majority of people hating to go to school, and I don't remember teachers having problems with school work (maybe its because I was a student at the time, but still, I didn't hear it from peers).
Does anyone know what kind of positive behavioral supports I can easily implement so late in the school year?
2007-02-26 03:22:18 · 2 answers · asked by Jess 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
this is the program our schools use to reward students for attendance and high grades. hope it helps some.
2007-02-26 03:32:56 · answer #1 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in highschool we had incentive programs. For example, if everyone attended homeroom for a month (or if they didn't they had to have a valid note from a parent, guardian, doctor, etc) than the last school day of the month would be a "free period" for our homeroom. Also, we had a lot of in-school activities and field-trips. In order to attend hockey games, basketball games, etc during school hours or field trips out of school hours we had to have less than 1 un-accounted for skip per month during the year. A skip was considered a single class. We had four classes in the day, so if you skipped 4 classes that was 4 skips.
Being so late in the school year, it might be hard to start up an incentive program now, but you can always try to start it up.
2007-02-26 12:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by bpbjess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋