1. Robert Blackman Edu 671 Fundamentals of Educational Research 6/22/15

2.  The focus of this action research is trying to discover a way to decrease the number of written referrals in the 3 rd grade.

3.  High number of written referrals from the 3 rd grade classes

4.  Age group consist of 8-9 year olds  Low income based families  Low academic levels  Health Conditions

5.  What are some predetermine conditions that influences behavior?  Are teacher’s teaching styles keeping the students engaged/interested in the lessons?  Do students have plenty of opportunities to act out negative activity?

6.  This is in my locus of control by the following:  Students are in my class  I am on the leadership team  I help with discipline at the school

7.  Will implement a Positive Behavior Intervention Plan in the 3 rd grade classroom.

8.  The guidelines for the intervention plan:  Encourage positive behavior with positive/fun incentives.  Teacher will teach positive lessons in class.  Discipline problems will go through discipline plan

9.  Teacher will teach PBIS Lessons in class  These lessons will help teach the following:  Respect towards others  Manners  Positive behavior

10.  The students that display positive behavior will:  Recognition on the positive behavior hall of fame  Character Count student of the week and Month  Free Concession  Free admission to monthly school dance  Free conduct field trip  Caught being good/school money

11.  The intervention Plan for negative behavior students.  Talk to the students and encourage incentives  Take away privileges  Counseling session with counselor  Counseling session with schools psychologist  Parent conference  Written referral to office

12.  Leadership Team members- helped construct the PBIS plan.  Teachers in the 3 rd grade(including myself) will implement the PBIS plan.  School Counselor- will counsel any student that are displaying continuous negative behavior.  School Psychologist- will conduct a more detailed evaluation of the student  Parents- will help encourage and give information about home life.

13.  All the teachers not receiving of the plan  Students of that age group  Health concerns/predetermine conditions

14.  All data collected will only be used for research only  No one will be physically or emotionally harm while participating in the research  All participants will participate in the research at their own free will.

15.  The timeline of the Plan will be a total of 9 weeks  The PBIS lessons will be implemented in every week  All parts of the PBIS will be continuous throughout the 9 weeks.

16.  Money  Paper  Patience  And various of human resources

17.  Student Questionnaires  Iep  Parent Questionnaires  Students Surveys  Observations  Weekly test

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