Download or read book The Effects of Reduced Duration In school Suspension on the Classroom Behavior of Elementary School Students written by Austin K. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-school suspension is one of the most commonly used disciplinary procedures in schools today. It enjoys broad support from administrators, teachers, and parents and has become a favored alternative to out-of-school suspension. Despite its wide-spread use, virtually nothing is known about its effect on student behavior. Among the parameters of in-school suspension that have received little or no scientific evaluation, duration of assignment---an oft researched topic in the timeout literature---possesses particular practical, ethical, and legal implications. In this study, a within-subjects reversal design was used to compare the effects of short, 2-hour assignments to in-school suspension to more commonly used 2-day (12-hour) assignments on the classroom behavior of seven elementary school students. A visual inspection of the results revealed a reduction in participant classroom disruptive behavior and a corresponding increase in engagement immediately following in-school suspension for all participants. A small decrease in classmate disruptiveness and an accompanying increase in classmate engagement following participant suspension was also observed. Surprisingly, visual inspection of the data revealed no difference in participant or classmate behavior between in-school suspension conditions. The 12-hour condition, however, was associated with a 466% increase in lost instructional time over the 2-hour condition. Longterm behavior change was not achieved under either condition. Implications of these findings for the educational community are discussed.
Download or read book Closing the School Discipline Gap written by Daniel J. Losen and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes. Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and disability status. Part II examines potential remedies that show great promise, including a district-wide approach in Cleveland, Ohio, aimed at social and emotional learning strategies. Closing the School Discipline Gap is a call for action that focuses on an area in which public schools can and should make powerful improvements, in a relatively short period of time. Contributors include Robert Balfanz, Jamilia Blake, Dewey Cornell, Jeremy D. Finn, Thalia González, Anne Gregory, Daniel J. Losen, David M. Osher, Russell J. Skiba, Ivory A. Toldson “Closing the School Discipline Gap can make an enormous difference in reducing disciplinary exclusions across the country. This book not only exposes unsound practices and their disparate impact on the historically disadvantaged, but provides educators, policymakers, and community advocates with an array of remedies that are proven effective or hold great promise. Educators, communities, and students alike can benefit from the promising interventions and well-grounded recommendations.” —Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University “For over four decades school discipline policies and practices in too many places have pushed children out of school, especially children of color. Closing the School Discipline Gap shows that adults have the power—and responsibility—to change school climates to better meet the needs of children. This volume is a call to action for policymakers, educators, parents, and students.” —Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
Download or read book The Effects of a School Wide Discipline Plan on Suspension Rates written by Misty Doyal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of education, discipline has been a daunting and difficult task for educators. Over the years, the culture of discipline has changed dramatically. Transitioning from an abusive form of corporal punishment to a no-nonsense response, Zero Tolerance policies were adopted. As time went on, the reactive approach to discipline was implemented too harshly, and a proactive approach was chosen. In order to create quality learning environments and to promote student safety, many schools have placed a major emphasis on effectively managing and minimizing student discipline problems. In an effort to promote appropriate behaviors and reduce reactive discipline consequences, many schools have implemented programs such as School-wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) that are based on a restorative justice philosophy. The purpose of this study was to determine if a school-wide discipline plan based on restorative justice reduced suspensions over a 4-year period. A paired sample t-test was used to determine if there was a significant difference in suspension rates of 33 elementary students, between the academic year prior to implementation and the first, second, and third year of implementation. Through statistical analyzes, this researcher found that the first and third academic year of implementation showed higher suspension rates than the year prior to implementation. The second academic year of implementation showed similar suspension rates than the year prior to implementation. The results revealed the ineffectiveness of the school-wide discipline plan at the school selected for this study.
Download or read book Strategies to Reduce Student Misbehavior written by Oliver Clinton Moles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In school Suspension written by Tania Joy Davis and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the current in-school suspension program to determine if it reduces student recidivism.
Download or read book Suspension and Its Consequences written by NaYoung Hwang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2011--2012 academic year, approximately 3.5 million students received suspensions across the United States. Scholars and professionals have raised concerns regarding the frequent use of exclusionary discipline. In fact, research shows that receiving suspensions is associated with a wide range of negative youth outcomes. However, because isolating the causal effects of suspension is difficult, to what extent the associations are causal is still an open question. Moreover, little is known about the effects of suspension on the educational achievement of non-suspended students.The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the consequences of suspensions on students and their non-suspended peers by focusing on within-person variations, comparing change in achievement for the same students before and after the time of their suspensions and classmate suspensions. The results of Study 1 show that students from disadvantaged backgrounds have an elevated risk of exposure to an environment with classmates who receive suspensions. In Study 2, the results suggest that receiving multiple out-of-school suspensions can lead to negative educational achievement, whereas receiving one out-of-school suspension or receiving in-school suspension have little effects on the educational achievement of suspended students. Finally, in Study 3, I find that classmate suspensions positively affect the math achievement of non-suspended students.Taken together, the findings from the three studies provide new empirical evidence about the consequences of using classroom or school removal as a school disciplinary policy. In recent years, many school districts have discouraged suspension practices and have implemented alternative ways to discipline students. As a result, suspension rates plummeted in some school districts. The findings imply that the effort to reduce suspension rates may benefit students at risk of suspension, but may also harm overall learning environments. Such findings have important implications for policies regarding how to best discipline and teach students with behavioral challenges.
Download or read book We Want to Do More Than Survive written by Bettina L. Love and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
Download or read book Handbook of Classroom Management written by Carolyn M. Evertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 1357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classroom management is a topic of enduring concern for teachers, administrators, and the public. It consistently ranks as the first or second most serious educational problem in the eyes of the general public, and beginning teachers consistently rank it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Management problems continue to be a major cause of teacher burnout and job dissatisfaction. Strangely, despite this enduring concern on the part of educators and the public, few researchers have chosen to focus on classroom management or to identify themselves with this critical field. The Handbook of Classroom Management has four primary goals: 1) to clarify the term classroom management; 2) to demonstrate to scholars and practitioners that there is a distinct body of knowledge that directly addresses teachers’ managerial tasks; 3) to bring together disparate lines of research and encourage conversations across different areas of inquiry; and 4) to promote a vigorous agenda for future research in this area. To this end, 47 chapters have been organized into 10 sections, each chapter written by a recognized expert in that area. Cutting across the sections and chapters are the following themes: *First, positive teacher-student relationships are seen as the very core of effective classroom management. *Second, classroom management is viewed as a social and moral curriculum. *Third, external reward and punishment strategies are not seen as optimal for promoting academic and social-emotional growth and self-regulated behavior. *Fourth, to create orderly, productive environments teachers must take into account student characteristics such as age, developmental level, race, ethnicity, cultural background, socioeconomic status, and ableness. Like other research handbooks, the Handbook of Classroom Management provides an indispensable reference volume for scholars, teacher educators, in-service practitioners, and the academic libraries serving these audiences. It is also appropriate for graduate courses wholly or partly devoted to the study of classroom management.
Download or read book Reducing Out of school Suspension in Title I Middle Schools written by William Thomas Hatten (author.) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out-of-school suspension is a growing concern in the United States education system and affects students at the three Title I schools in the Central School System at a particularly high frequency. The purpose of this applied study was to solve the problem of high-frequency out-of-school suspension for three Title I middle schools in the Central School system and to formulate a solution to address the problem. A multi-method design was used, consisting of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The first approach was structured interviews with two administrators from each school. The second approach was the analysis of archival data using the discipline data from the school system. The third approach was a teacher survey using a Likert scale to determine teacher perspectives on out-of-school suspension. These tools were used to develop a focused program that will allow the schools to meet student needs while also maintaining safety, order, and a positive school climate. The results of the data showed that administrators and teachers were aware of the negative implications of out-of-school suspension but were experiencing tension between the need to maintain discipline within the school and teacher support while also desiring to reduce out-of-school suspension. The data showed that administrators identified significant differences in most of the student body and students who have frequent behavioral concerns and multiple suspensions. An alternative to suspension program was developed and proposed as a solution to reduce out-of-school suspension.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Classroom Management written by Edward J. Sabornie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Classroom Management, Third Edition, is an authoritative treatment of the latest science and development in the study of classroom management in schools. Evidence-based classroom management practices and programs are essential to enhancing students’ academic, behavioral, social-emotional, and motivational outcomes across grade levels. This comprehensive volume collects scholarship and cutting-edge research for graduate students and faculty of psychology, teacher education, curriculum and instruction, special education, and beyond. The book has been thoroughly revised and expanded with updated coverage of foundational topics such as effective instruction, preventative strategies, positive behavior intervention and supports, family–school relationships, legal issues, and other related topics, while also giving new attention to social justice, students on the autism spectrum, and adaptations across urban, rural, and virtual contexts.
Download or read book Getting Into Good Trouble at School written by Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn the promise of equitable education into reality. This is your guidebook for building an antiracist school. Written by two education leaders with very different life experiences, Getting into Good Trouble At School provides the context, empowerment, and concrete actions needed to dismantle racist policies and practices that for decades have kept students of color from experiencing the same success as their white counterparts. The journeys of Gregory Hutchings and Douglas Reed – which include systemic racism and white privilege - provide a unique model superintendents, principals, school board members and other educators can use to reimagine educational equity, actively dismantle institutional racism, and implement strategic, methodical policies that benefit the entire school community. In this book you’ll find A detailed case study of antiracist educational transformation What it really means to commit to racial equity Guidance for dismantling tracking and in-school segregation Positive, equitable alternatives to typical disciplinary practices Six steps to building an antiracist school system Racism isn’t always intentional. Antiracism, on the other hand, must be. Now antiracist education leaders can put their intentions into action—and grant the promise of an equitable and culturally rich education to all students.
Download or read book Instructional Practices with and without Empirical Validity written by Bryan G. Cook and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important for Stakeholders to be aware of both practices supported as effective as well as ineffective for students with learning and behavioral disabilities, in order to provide instruction that results in improved learner outcomes in critical areas of education.
Download or read book Looking in Classrooms written by Thomas L. Good and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking in Classrooms uses educational, psychological, and social science theories and classroom-based research to teach future classroom teachers about the complexities and demands of classroom instruction. While maintaining the core approach of the first ten editions, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated with new research-based content on teacher evaluation, self-assessment, and decision-making; special emphases on teaching students from diverse ethnic, cultural, class, and gender-identity contexts; and rich suggestions for integrating technology into classroom instruction. Widely considered to be the most comprehensive and authoritative source available on effective, successful teaching, Looking in Classrooms synthesizes the knowledge base on student motivation, classroom management, teacher expectations, teacher effectiveness, adaptive instruction for individual learners, and informative observational techniques for enhancing teaching. It addresses key topics in classroom instruction in an accessible fashion, promoting easy intepretation and transfer to practice, and articulates the roles of teacher-centered pedagogy, student-centered instruction, and project-based learning in today‘s classroom. Guided by durable historical knowledge as well as dynamic, emerging conceptions of teaching, this text is ideal for undergraduate teacher training programs and for masters-level courses for teachers, administrators, and superintendents.
Download or read book African American Psychology written by Faye Z. Belgrave and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Psychology: From Africa to America, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of the field of African American psychology. Authors Faye Z. Belgrave and Kevin W. Allison skillfully convey the integration of African and American influences on the psychology of African Americans using a consistent theme throughout the text—the idea that understanding the psychology of African Americans is closely linked to understanding what is happening in the institutional systems in the United States. The Fourth Edition reflects notable advances and important developments in the field over the last several years, and includes evidence-based practices for improving the overall well-being of African American communities. New to the Fourth Edition Coverage of current issues affecting African Americans and causing changes in the social-political environment include the Black Lives Matter movement, racial trauma, and more. Content from blogs has been added to chapter-opening cover stories to reflect the more modern ways news and information are obtained. More coverage of literature and research on Blacks throughout the diaspora, especially in Africa, provide historical context and documents heterogeneity among African Americans in the United States. Expanded coverage of topics as a result of recent research includes LGBTQ individuals, African American fathers, colorism, intersectionality, electronic cigarettes, social media, and more.
Download or read book Classroom Behavior Management for Diverse and Inclusive Schools written by Herbert Grossman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text utilizes a three stage approach to classroom behaviour management to assist teachers to avoid behaviour problems, manage those that cannot be avoided and resolve those that cannot be managed.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Adolescence written by Roger J.R. Levesque and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 3161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Encyclopedia of Adolescence – with entries presented in easy-to-access A to Z format – serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. By making full use of Springer’s print and online flexibility, the Encyclopedia is at the forefront of efforts to advance the field by pushing and creating new boundaries and areas of study that further our understanding of adolescents and their place in society. Substantively, the Encyclopedia draws from four major areas of research relating to adolescence. The first broad area includes research relating to "Self, Identity and Development in Adolescence". This area covers research relating to identity, from early adolescence through emerging adulthood; basic aspects of development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social); and foundational developmental theories. In addition, this area focuses on various types of identity: gender, sexual, civic, moral, political, racial, spiritual, religious, and so forth. The second broad area centers on "Adolescents’ Social and Personal Relationships". This area of research examines the nature and influence of a variety of important relationships, including family, peer, friends, sexual and romantic as well as significant nonparental adults. The third area examines "Adolescents in Social Institutions". This area of research centers on the influence and nature of important institutions that serve as the socializing contexts for adolescents. These major institutions include schools, religious groups, justice systems, medical fields, cultural contexts, media, legal systems, economic structures, and youth organizations. "Adolescent Mental Health" constitutes the last major area of research. This broad area of research focuses on the wide variety of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors relating to mental health, from psychopathology to thriving. Major topic examples include deviance, violence, crime, pathology (DSM), normalcy, risk, victimization, disabilities, flow, and positive youth development.
