After reading some articles online and discussing different topics with my wife, we have decided on the topic of how In School Suspension and Alternative Education Placement affects the success of students who are assigned this as a form of punishment. We also want to try to come up with some other form of discipline that will keep the kids in the classroom, while still maintaining our high standards of behavioral expectations. This will be a big undertaking, as this is a problem that plagues most if not all Junior High and High School Campuses in our state and perhaps our nation. Marquelle and I are hopeful to affect a change in the students on our joint campuses and our administrators are on board for us to give it a try.
I feel our biggest challenge is going to be making sure that the classroom environment remains conducive to teaching for the well behaved students and the teachers, while allowing students with behavioral problems to still be in attendance. This is an never ending problem. As much, as I want all of my students to be in class for my engaging lessons, I also do not want a disruptive student to prevent me from being able to teach or another student from being able to learn. This leads to the question: Where does one person's rights to education end and another's rights begin? This will be a portion of our research, as we will hold a group discussion/interview with a cross section of students who have had 0-2 referrals on average for the past 3 years. We want to be sure to include their perspectives in this research inquiry, as well as the teachers who will also be affected, by whatever we decide to implement. The teachers will be questioned via a survey perhaps by utilizing survey monkey.
Overall, we have a lot of work to get done, but in the end any success that improves the education of our students will be worth the efforts. I hope you enjoy following our journey, as I share our progress and continue to keep it real!
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