Sharifah Leben Dr. Tolbert Assignment 6 Assignment 6 • Mission Statement o The mission of the Don’t Text and Drive program is to ensure that teens are effective users of safe driving techniques. This programs empowers teens to be thinkers, decision makers, skillful drivers, and leaders to others. Students would be supported throughout their development as they learn the tools needed to be safer on the road by not texting while driving. • Goals o Don’t Text and Drive creates a learning environment where teens along with adults are actively participating in group sessions and learning about the effects when texting and driving. o Allow student to have a different mindset when it comes to driving, and pledging to put down the cell phones…
Before you start reading this, get your phone, go to the last message you sent or read and ask yourself “Is this worth my or someone else’s life?” In the United States, more than nine people are killed and over 1000 people are injured every day by driving and using their phone. Phone usage slows your brake reaction by 18%. According to an AAA poll 94% of teen drivers were aware of the dangers of texting and driving. However, 35% of them admitted to doing it anyway, because of this, AT&T has started its most prominent “It Can Wait” campaign.…
I chose to use my comprehensive school counseling program notebook as my artifact that I created in Dr. Dixon’s School Counseling Programs because I believe it identifies the information needed to construct a developmentally appropriate academic, career and social/emotional counseling curriculum. The notebook illustrates the workable and useable knowledge, understanding, abilities, attitudes and skills that I have gained through the construction of the resource. This notebook will support my efforts and professional growth in numerous components of standard one. This resource will help me organize an effective and comprehensive school counseling program that aligns with the ASCA model, along with the laws, policies, and regulations…
Then we thought about what we wished we would have been shown as a freshman or a 7th grader when we decided to pitch the idea of the mock car crash. We felt as though we knew enough people who have texted while driving and we felt that texting while driving is not only an issue in this school but all over the country. During our research…
Today’s technology seems so convenient and wonderful but it causes many problems in people’s lives. The biggest issue in the United States right now is texting and driving. So many lives have been taken due to this bad decision. In 2009, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration stated that texting and driving increases the risk of crashing by twenty-three percent. The AAA Foundation of Safety sent out a survey and found that ninety percent of people realize that texting and driving is very dangerous, but thirty-five percent of people admitted to sending a text message or e-mail while driving.…
Should teenagers have access to cellphones while they are driving? Nowadays cell phones are commonly used for everything. Having a cellphone can be for emergency calls and a risk for taking your life away and someone else's life. Every teenager wants to be able to drive once they get their permit they want to be able to drive around different places and be able to drive. While others want to text as well about where the next party will be at, where and when to hangout with friends, any kind of texting while driving can change your life.…
One of the three major roles a School Psychologist is responsible for is providing interventions for their students. These interventions take three forms: academic assessment, behavior intervention, and psychological assessment. According to the New York Association of School Psychologists, in 1989 there was tremendous growth of people getting jobs as school psychologists, and a dramatically corresponding increase in the number of state associations resulted. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) developed many journals, newsletters, and studies focused on School Psychology throughout the years 1969-1989.…
According to Facts On File News (“Texting While Driving”), text messaging has become one of teen’s favorite ways of communicating. Teens are taking their eyes off the road to send a message to their friends, Facebook, and Twitter. Teens are tweeting “stuck in traffic no fun,” and are not thinking about the consequence of reckless driving. Teens that are not concentrating and not paying attention to the road are likely to have a crash. About 47% of teens have admitted to texting while driving.…
According to the article at Safety driving lessons "Statistically most of the offenders are young people between the ages of 18 and 24; however, there are behind-the-wheel texters in every age group and demographic. The Los Angeles Times recently reported on a federal survey that at any given moment, 660,000 drivers are looking at their phones instead of the road." Whihc means that the PSA's are really that effective as most would like them to be. Many teenagers have reporte that they text and drive sometims while they are behind the wheel. Others have even reported that they have seen heir parents and friends text and drive behind the wheels.…
The self-administered survey included questions adapted from the school-based studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. The survey inquired about adolescents' behaviors and attitudes toward driving, perceptions of school and family, and leisure time…
In addition to, “Adults may be more reliable than teens in self reporting their behaviors” (“Adults Tie Teens in Texting, Driving”). It is important for drivers to realize the dangers of texting while driving. Texting and driving is done by everyone, including teens and adults, and the society around us. As a whole, it is now important to take blame for the wrong that many have been…
Thesis: Distracted driving is the leading cause of car accidents in teenagers. The solution to prohibiting the use of technology while driving by understanding a teenager’s behavior, enforcing laws that ban technology use while driving, other simple solutions, and learning about families that are affected by distracted driving. Source One Newspaper "Teens Say They Know Texting While Driving Is Dangerous, Yet Almost.... " Norwalk Reflector.…
The goal of the program is to support student achievement through a comprehensive and developmentally appropriate program. Additionally, students will work towards achieving their own educational, career, and personal/social goals, which will aid them in becoming vital members of our society. The intent is to provide counselors and administrators with a comprehensive program to implement best practices and student success. The three main elements of this program are based on standards written and established by the ASCA National Model.…
Even as smartphones become increasingly prevalent in the hands of teenagers, making communication easier, that ease of communication can also lead to harmful effects as well. When someone texts and drives, it is hazardous to their own lives as well as the lives of the other drivers on the road. That lack of attention is the cause of many accident nationwide and is responsible for the death of hundreds of people every year. These deaths and injuries are entirely preventable, provided that something is done to promote driver responsibility. The government should be more active in preventing texting and driving by promoting new technology in cars, enforcing harsher punishments, and using propaganda to show the dangers.…
The Two-by-Ten Model: Eliminating Problem Behaviors Jennifer Lucatuorto GRED 563 School Improvement Project July 22, 2015 Table of Contents Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Chapter 1: Introduction Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………….4 Statement of the Problem …………………………………………………………………………5 Purpose of the Study ……………………………………………………………………………... 5 Significance of the Study …………………………………………………………………………6 Summary ………………………………………………………………………………………….7 Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………8 Importance of Relationship-Building …………………………………………………………….8…