Tag: Kyle

Kyle Casperson

Best Classroom Discipline strategies that stay IN the class

The question at hand is, “what are the most efficient ways to discipline students in the classroom?” During my 2nd semester of observing my cooperating teacher this year, I noticed that her go-to discipline action was to send students either to the “office” or the “reset room”. This is in the PE setting, and I believe that students need a daily period of PE, so this seems harsh and lazy on the teacher’s POV. Her reasoning for not wanting to deal with the students is that “I’ve given them too many choices”, or “they don’t deserve another chance”. These are excuses, and I believe that my CT is being on the lazy side and doesn’t want to interact with these troubling students. Some methods that I have seen work are: having a conversation with the troubled student, putting them in a temporary “timeout”, give them a choice between different discipline actions, and last, positive discipline. Some findings that I have found include; Students lose retention, skills, and social opportunities when they are sent out of the classroom. This is an old-fashioned discipline action, and often this is what students are looking for. Also, Giving PE students physical engaging punishments as discipline works at a higher clip than sending students to the office or reset room, when measuring retention rates and overall participation. Lastly, Tinto’s model of student attrition and Knowle’s theory of adulting both support in-class discipline, and having student leave class does not benefit anyone.

EDUC321- Classroom Relations & Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Amanda Torres-Sanchez, Gabriel Fatooh, Melody Garcia, Jacob Lilley, and Kyle Aure

NEO Project

This team is creating an organization that investigates near earth objects (NEOs) and formulates an organizational plan to neutralize the threat that NEOs pose to earth. NEOs are comets and asteroids which have orbits that come in proximity to earth. Our five team members are developing separate departments within the organization. In our hierarchical organizational structure, Amanda serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Jacob as the Chief Technology Officer in charge of logistics and strategy, Kyle as the Chief Financial Officer in charge of finances and technology, Gabe as the Chief People Officer in charge of communications and ethics, and Melody as the Chief Sustainability Officer in charge of crisis management. Our research leads us to use the kinetic impactor technique to neutralize NEO threats. To determine this as the appropriate technique, we consider factors such as deflection effectiveness, probability of success, risk of failure, logistical factors, time to execute, and total strategy costs. This team not only formulates a strategy to combat NEO’s, but more importantly develops an organization that sustains the strategy.

BUS 415 – Group and Organizational Behavior

Pete Diffenderfer

11:00am – 12:00pm L203 (Poster Contest)