Amendenments & Comments

I am trying to wrap my thoughts around the revisions to my ARP.  I have recieved comments from classmates, and looked at other's ARP for ideas.  I look foward to my meeting with my Principal tomorrow to discuss some things.  Below are a few of the comments I have recieved thus far, and my plan for implemention.

I think that this will be an interesting topic for research and I believe that it will provide opportunities to look at not just math scores but all subjects. I am not familiar with the CHAMPS behavior program but I do know that student miss valuable instructional time when teachers have to spend a majority of their time dealing with discipline issues. I look forward to learning more about your discipline program as we follow your research.

This comment does not change or amend my ARP draft plan, but I am reasssured knowing that this is a common topic on other campuses as well.

Great student group to focus on! Having knowledge of CHAMPS and working with behavior students, I think you have a project with good documentation possibilities. I think you will find that the CHAMPS verbage used with students and their responses can easily document the frequency of redirect, the success of redirect and the response

Until this comment, I had not thought about looking into the positive behaviors teachers experience and their correltion to test scores. This may be something I add to my plan. 

Will you also correlate their attendance in math to the grand scheme of things? One year I had extreme behavior issues with 4 students and implemented a behavior modification program.Due to their attendance being so poor, I felt that the program did not honestly affect them in the way it could do to the inconsistent lessons they received. If attendance is an issue for some of your students, how will you address that aspect to make the CHAMPS implementation consistent?

After reading this comment, I realized what an important aspect I was leaving out of my ARP!  I absolutely need to look at attendence.  This could be a major contributing factor to some of the students acadmic gaps, thus creating behavioral weaknesses. I have already amended my plan to look at the attendence for the students who have below average test scores, as well as excessive office referrals or behavioral consequences.

I am very thankful for the feedback I have recieved thus far. I am also glad that I am recieving honest feedback- I am always looking for ways to improve.