Revised Action Research Summary - (I made some changes)

After several meetings with my principal, it was clear that student behavioral and disciplinary problems are a huge issue at our school. Initially, my principal and I wanted to research ways to decrease student behaviors and find a correlation to staffs’ discipline plan and implementation of current “Peace Builder” program. We realized that our huge problem was too much to take on and that we needed to narrow our action research. We wanted to look specifically at behavioral and disciplinary problems on the playground, since much of the problems occur when the students are on the playground.

My new action research question is: In what ways can we decrease student disciplinary problems and misbehavior on the playground? Other questions that will be considered: What are teachers doing to teach and encourage correct behavior on the playground? What do teachers do when students’ misbehavior arise and what are teachers doing to prevent student disciplinary problems and misbehavior  Although our school has adopted a program called “Peace Builders” to address some of these issues, the question is - are we fully implementing it? Is this program effective at our school?