Tracking to see who Needs Behavior contracts

Step One of my Inquiry Action Plan was to track behavior in class to see who needs the behavior contracts. So starting the week of January 11th, I tracked the inappropriate talking that occurred during our Phonics lessons. Because of testing, there were three days that I tracked. The positive of the tracking is that the most that any student talked (either to a neighbor or to the class) was 6 times in a lesson. That student did receive a tally as well.

The total amount of times that people talked out in class was also totaled.

Based off of the three days, I counted up the total amount of times that every student talked, and then any students that talked over 7 times between the three days was worthy of a behavior contract. This came up with 7 students who would benefit from this intervention.

This included my two case study students: N, and R. (Names removed because this is a public domain) It also included J, B, D, T and G. (Fortunately for me, all of these boys have different first initials. )

See the graph below of the talking for each over the three days:


The graph above is the whole class totals over the three days. The students that were not chosen to have behavior contracts have their class number used in the graph, with the students chosen having the letter of their first name instead.

The average amount of total times of talking throughout the week was 30 times in a lesson.

My goals from these charts is that the total amount of times in the class decreases and the boys who are given behavior contracts decreases as well.