PLC Meeting 2/20/13

Problem:  Students turn in assignments late
Questions:  Using technology, what can be done to decrease the amount of late assignments?

Step1:  establish a baseline

• choose a block on which to focus
• choose a strategy  to use
• Does the strategy include positive reinforcement?

Newport:  classdojo.com, Yes, A token economy for positive reinforcement.

• study skills Block 3

Lowe:  School Loop Discussion, Positive reinforcement, no, Content reinforcement, yes.

• Chemistry 1 Block 1

West 

Nemeth (Drew)
Postlewait


Step 2:  establish a working prediction (hypothesis) for measuring the amount of tardy assignments

Lowe:  Using the School Loop Discussion Function to measure understanding of the content and assignment directions,  students will reduce the amount of tardy assignments because in addition to the assignment, they will also receive an extra writing assignment.

Every Friday, the amount of tardy assignments will be counted from the school loop grade book.


Week 1: 2 tardy assignments
Week 2:  7 tardy assignments
Week 3: 15 Tardy assignments
Week 4:  12 Tardy Assignments
Week 5:  0 Tardy Assignments (End of Quarter)
Week 6:  29 Tardy Assignments

Newport: Using classdojo.com to track student assignments in all of their classes, students will reduce the amount of zeros because they receive intangible and tangible positive reinforcement via a classroom token economy.

Baseline: 66
Week 1: 2
Week 2:

3/13 Update on Missing Assignments, student survey

James Newport
Study Skills Class
classdojo.com to track # of missing assignments
use points for token economy that students turn in for prizes

• Feb. 4th--67-Baseline

• Feb. 11th--2

• Feb. 18th--(30)

• March 4th--(172)

• March 11th--(188)

I am seeing improvement in homework being completed on time after regularly putting stars or sad faces in the student's workbooks.  They definitely do not like the sad faces.  I even see them working on the homework before they go home so they don't have to take the workbook home.  I have one student who has worked ahead several pages.  Out of 7 students, there were only 2 that had their homework completed. This week, I had 4 that had all their work completed.  One of them only missed a small part.  So, I am seeing more motivation and more responsibility.

Since I have a small beginning ESL class, I am using a more basic approach to getting the students to do their homework.  First, many do not have internet at home, so even drop boxing an assignment is not an option.  Giving those students time to do that in class takes away from learning time.  So, my plan is to put either a star or happy face on their homework assignment before we go over it in class, which I have already started.  After discussion today, I plan to put in points for the number of stars that each student has accumulated during the week.  Then, they will be able to see how their homework assignments affect their grades.

Meeting 1 Semester 2 1/23/13

Revisiting PLC Goals

Semester 2 Goal:  Reduce the amount of tardy assignments for greater student achievement.

Tactics:  Each teacher will choose a previously attempted form of technology to reduce the number of tardy assignments.

Step1:  establish a baseline

• choose a block on which to focus
• choose a strategy  to use
• Does the strategy include positive reinforcement?

Newport:  classdojo.com

• study skills
• advocacy

Lowe:  Edmodo.com

• Chemistry 1 Block 1

Mitchell:

Williams

West (Dolezal)

Nemeth (Drew)