Methods for 1 on 1

Based on the comparison taken from the 2012-2013 School Report Card (http://applications.education.ky.gov/SRC/Default.aspx) and from discussions with Mrs. H (a pseudonym) we made the decision to focus on one of Knight's (2007) Big Four areas: Behavior.  The methods that we decided to use were:

1. Proximity: This was Mrs. H moving around the room and moving closer towards those students who did present any behavior issues during the lesson.
2. Ratio of interaction: "A common rule of thumb in the literature on classroom management is that to encourage positive behavior, teachers should pay at least three times as much attention to behavior they want to encourage as they do to the behavior they want to discourage," (Knight, 2007, p.143).  In the classroom, this would look like: praising several students that are on track and performing the desired behavior, focusing on the behavior that she wanted, catching the student with the most behavior issues doing something good, etc.
3. Providing Opportunities to Respond: "Ways that students might be prompted to react to any learning activity in which they are involved," (Knight, 2007, p.147-148).   During the lesson this came in the form of choral responses, individual work, and partner work.
4. Effective corrective comments: In the classroom, this would simply mean to build relationships with all students, especially those that display the most behavior issues, and keeping roles in the classroom clear.