Positive Action

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Positive Action

• Sarah Aase
• Chrystal Bryan
• Jessica Puig

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Philosophy The Cycle of Life

• Character building program
• you feel good about yourself when you do
  positive actions
• and there are positive ways to do EVERYTHING
• ______ thoughts lead to ______ actions lead to
  _____ feelings and ______ feelings lead to more
  ______ thoughts

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Areas of whole self

• Self-concept
• Healthy body image and mind
• Responsibility
• Golden Rule
• Honesty
• Improving yourself continually

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What might be some of the primary goals of
Positive Action in a school setting?

• BRAINSTORM
• Example Students will have a better self image

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Lets talk more about the goals of Positive
Action

• Everyone has to be involved to make this work.
• Academic and behavioral development
• Families
• Positive Climate
• Communities
• Training and Staff Development
• Multilevel youth, adults, children

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Implementation Checklist

• Administer
• Introduce
• Order
• Conduct
• Designate
• Organize
• Complete
• Implement
• Develop
• Evaluate
• Plan

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Impact

• Improves academics, behavior and character
• Materials are developmentally appropriate
• Works to develop the _________
• Thoughts, actions, feelings, physical, social,
  and emotional
• Works within many ________ and _________
• Classrooms
• Sets the feel or stage for appropriate behavior
• Tool for counseling

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Strength and weaknesses

• Strengths
• Involves the community
• Starts from a young age
• Character education can be a good management
  program.
• People share the same core beliefs which makes
  less discipline problems

• Weaknesses
• Everyone doesnt always agree
• Difficult to get older kids involved in a new
  program
• However, people doubt whether scripted programs
  are effective.
• See first bullet
• May be a taxing program to learn
• ..one more thing

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Case Study Characters

• Carol Goodman is thirteen, strong willed,
  arrogant, influential but in a negative manner.
  She is popular and self-centered.
• Mrs. Gizzard has been teaching for twenty years
  and has yet to see a student quite like Carol.
  While consulting with a guidance counselor, she
  discovered Carols questionable history of
  emotional abuse towards other students.
• Mary Blaine is a overweight girl with a dreadful
  case of acne.

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Case Study The instigating problem

• Carol has been humiliating Mary in front of
  friends and classmates. As a result, there was a
  major confrontation between the two girls. In a
  class discussion, Mary gave her opinion to Carol
  and Carol ostracized Mary. Mary went into
  hysterics and cried to Mrs. Gizzard.

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Case Study What happened next?

• Mrs. Gizzard consulted the Guidance Counselor
  about the situation with Mary and Carol. Mrs.
  Gizzard found out that Carol had a history of
  bullying. When found out about their
  conversation she threatened Mrs. Gizzard, telling
  her to, mind her own business. And that she
  could get Mrs. Gizzard in trouble. Now, Mrs.
  Gizzard doesnt know what to do.

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What would happen if Positive Action was already
in placeStrengths.

• Daily lessons from parents, school, and the
  community would be helpful in stressing social
  skills and self-management to Carol.
• Carol would be able to carefully examine her
  actions including how she gets upset, why, when,
  and what makes her upset.

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What would happen if Positive Action was already
in placeWeaknesses

• Carol may not care about Positive Action and
  neither do her parents because they are all sick
  of Positive Action. They feel it is not genuine
  and scripted.
• Carol, even though has a history, may have
  transferred and doesnt know about Positive
  Action.

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Class discussion

• How would you apply Positive Action?

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References

• Allred, Carol Gerber Ph.d. (2006). Positive
  Action Program Description Including Research
  Summary. Retrieved 20 September 2007.
  www.Positiveaction.net.
• Group Guidance Models (from the handout)