At this time, I have met with my site supervisor and she is excited with the topic for my action research. My site supervisor also had me contact our Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum to make sure that I wouldn't be stepping on any toes. She is also behind me on this and thinks it is a really good idea. I will be working with 6th grade students, but I might be surveying students and faculty from the middle school and high school that my elementary school will feed into.
The topic has to do with implementing "Making Good Choices" with our Worth the Wait Curriculum. When it comes to making good choices, the students need to know the kinds of ramifications that can and will take place if they don't make good choices, but students also need to know that they can redeem themselves when they don't make good choices. Basically, 6th grade students watch a lot of television, they are on the internet and they have cell phones with all of the bells and whistles. The problem? They don't know how to use these great tools the proper way. When these kids watch television, they see so many things that are on "reality tv", but don't realize that isn't the "real world". These kids see so much on the internet and think that if they can see it or watch it, it is OK to do and replicate. These kids have the "best of the best" cell phones (probably better than ours) and they tend to take inappropriate pictures and then pass them on, they tend to write inappropriate messages (we call it sexting) and then pass them on, and these kids do not realize how they can hurt someone or even hur themselves. I believe it is time for someone to really tell these kids what can happen. So many parents don't know what is going on, so many parents don't know "how to talk to their children" and so many parents don't know what can happen legally. So it is time to get out the correct information to not only the students but their parents. One step at a time!!
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