Inquiry plan - post 3

On Friday, November 20th I completed the video part of my inquiry plan. I only got to show a very limited part of my inquiry plan because of the time limits of the video. I showed one part with each student. The first student spent the entire time cheesing at the camera (he loves camera) but did his work well. Both of my students did their very best and I was extremely proud of them. I am currently working on getting the video on the computer but as of now the computers are not recognizing the digital video camera. Our tech person from Ludlow is coming to my room tomorrow to see if he can get it to work. If not I am going to have to transfer it to a DVD and send it through the mail on Tuesday morning. It has been very stressful trying to get all of this videoing done. My students were absent for 2 days (Wed and Thurs) which are the two days I was planning on doing the activity. Friday was a little off for the students because we went swimming that morning and we were all hanging out in the classroom with sweats and hodies on - definitely a different type of day for my students but I am very happy with the way the video turned out.

Inquiry Plan Week 2

My inquiry plan has gotten off to a rough start. After not being able to get consent I finally talked with the parent that I knew would give me the consent to do the work. She is going to sign the consent papers next week for me.
Once I determined the students I did their data sheets
For student number 1, the goals I will be working on with data sheets are
* Identifying colors
* Identifying body parts (nose and eyes)
* Sitting in circle time for 5 minutes
For student number 2, the goals I will be working on with data sheets are
* Working with a peer of adult on a task for 7 or more minutes with 2 or less prompts
* Answering comprehension questions with 80% accuracy
* Pointing to pictures when being read a story

I did the baseline on each goal for the students with the following results
Identifying colors - 0%
Identifying body parts - 0%
Sitting in circle time for 5 minuets with 2 or less prompts - stayed for 2 minutes
Working with a peer or adult on a task for 7 minutes - worked for 3 minutes 45 sec
Answering comp questions with 50% accuracy - answered with 25% accuracny
Pointing to pictures when being read a story - pointed with 50% accuracy

The problem is that there will only be one data sheet for each student because there are only certain ways to work with these students because of their behavior plans and IEP goals.
However I will try a new intervention for each of these goals for each student to work for the inquiry plan.

This plan has had to be worked with and changed but overall it will be an experience in the classroom that will enhance the learning experience for my students which is the overall purpose of this inquiry plan.

Inquiry Plan - 1

This past week I have been working on making the data sheets for my students. Most of the week I spent time determining which students I wanted to work with. Because of parental consent issues, I may only have a choice of 2 students. If I use these two students I can not use the sticker system that I had in place because these students do not respond to stickers. In fact, they respond to very few items and can not sit for a period of time for five stickers. Also, these students have a lot of difficulty with academics so I will be monitoring goals, but over the course of 3 weeks there will not be a change, or maybe a slight change, in the data that I collect.
I have been working on data sheets for both students. However once again I was going to make different data sheets for each student, but if I use the students where I can get parental consent (they are brothers), then there is not an option of more than one data sheet because the goals are very clear cut (i.e. the student will identify the color red; the student will point at their nose; the student will turn the pages in a book, etc.).
However, I am working on getting their data sheets ready - due to staffing this week I will not be able to begin actually collecting data until Wednesday.