for Professor Euclid

  My students and I operate within all three social frames. The way that we operate through Responsibility- Freedom is using an earning system. I will give my students two chances to earn a desired item of their choice (ex. Ipad, bubbles, computer) for 30 minutes in the afternoon and at the end of the school day. For example, I would let my students know that “if you show positive behavior throughout the morning you can earn in the afternoon”; once the student shows negative behavior the student will not have the opportunity to earn in the afternoon. But, I will let my student know that they didn’t earn in the afternoon for showing negative behavior but, they can try again to show positive behavior for the remainder of the day so they can have the opportunity to earn during the end of the day to show interest in showing responsibility (Shielder, 2010).

The way that we operate through Success- Recognition is by praising and reward good behavior and success, but ignore the negative behavior especially when it is for attention. For example, during transition if a student flops to the floor, I will ignore the behavior and make sure that while the student is flopping in the hallway that no one else gives the student the attention that they want and let the student get up when they are ready. Once the student gets up, I will let them know that that was a good choice and verbally praise them for making that good choice so that students will not develop a failure psychology and teaches them positive cause and effect (Shielder, 2010).

The way we operate through Loyalty-Caring is by building relationships. Within my organization we use the term friend for everyone. We don’t use terms like classmate, teacher, or student; we refer to each other as friends because it gives a more caring term. We also never make promises that we can’t keep with students and support students socially and emotionally.

            The social frame that I would like to improve is Success- Recognition. I would like to show my students how to give success recognition to their peers instead of me giving the praise most of the time because I feel that peer praise may be more preferable and motivating as well for more effort and when more effort goes into a task, students learn the intrinsic value of a task.