I learned from her that the student’s academic level was between end of first grade to beginning of second grade. The student received all his academic instruction in her adaptive classroom with six other students. She taught the students with the aid of a teacher assistant. I took the opportunity to conduct an action research study to address the undesired behavior. The first step was to determine if the student was eligible to take part in a self-monitoring intervention program, which is a research based strategy used in managing behaviors. I used the six questions found on the self-monitoring checklist from The Iris Center for Training Enhancements, Rankin & Reid (1995) which required a “yes” or “no” answer. All of the student’s answers were in the affirmative giving me the greenlight to go ahead and conduct my …show more content…
The self-monitoring tool I used, is an effective strategy for managing behaviors and can be used in my future practice. I believe as an educator, I will “sell” this wonderful and amazing strategy not only to other educators, but to the parents of the students that I will be teaching. From understanding the literature I collected regarding self-monitoring, this is a tool that is not only used by school children in the classroom setting, but can be used even by teachers themselves or anybody else for that matter. For example, the parents of the student I monitored can also monitor their child at home using this tool to continue the management of his