Since the beginning of last semester, I've been working on my teacher inquiry. I choose to research into the implementation of Conscious Discipline into a classroom. For data, I've been tracking positive and negative in the classroom. We use Class Dogo as the positive reinforcement, when students are working hard, following directions, or just doing the right thing they can earn points to spend at the classroom store each Friday. We also use a strip system, each colored strip represents the expected behaviors in the classroom we used the behaviors in the report card to create the strips, when students continue to not follow the expected behavior they can pull a strip. I've been tracking both of these for the last two months and I've also been struggling to show this data in a chart. This week I had spent several hours using Excel to get my data into a more manageable form and after many hours, some tears, and numerous spread sheets later I was finally able to get my data into a graph that made sense.
This week also started my math coaching cycle which I always identify as my worst subject both as a student and a teacher. I've chosen to work on reasoning abstractly and quantitatively as my goal for this session. I want my students to start asking themselves questions as they solve math problems and to encourage them to think through whats going on when we are solving problems. Monday brings our new math unit which is counting from 1- 100, I'll be planning for the week and I am looking forward to tapping into some of the resources provided by my teacher.
And that's all for this week,
Ms. Brookes