Date of Award
1-1-1992
Document Type
Practicum
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Child and Youth Care Administration
Advisor
June Delano
Committee Member
Williams Neveling
Keywords
adolescents, attention control, attitude change, behavior change, behavior modification, behavior problems, counseling services, educational change, grade 7, high-risk students, intervention, junior high school, learning disabilities, middle school, motivation, off-task behavior, school role, self-control, self-evaluation, social attitudes, time-on-task
Abstract
This practicum was designed primarily to increase the on-task behavior of the seventh and eighth grade special needs students in the classroom. Counseling intervention strategies were implemented to help the students learn self-management, motivational, decision-making and social skills. The teachers, principal and parents worked together in helping to facilitate the student's behavior change.
The writer developed a student interview, a student behavior questionnaire, a student self-monitoring report and a teacher observation check-list.
The counseling intervention program results were positive. Analysis of the data indicated that ten of the twenty student participants increased their time-on-task in the classroom; ten of the twenty special needs students increased their social skills and ten of the twenty special needs students' parents saw an improvement in on-task-time in the classroom, as indicated by homework and report card grades.