Worksheet 5: Developing public policy solutions

Date: 12/7/06 Group Members:Ms. Jones, Ms. Polubinski, Ms. Prioleau, Ms. Schoen, Ms. Stewart, Mr. Tsui

Your problem (phrase):

How to Stop Student Chat During The Mini-Lesson

List at least three public policy alternatives. Be sure that all of your public policy alternatives are at the same political level as your social problem. Each alternative must specify the actual government or government agency that will carry out the proposed action.

1)A student who “Chats” should have a “book” in which s/he can “write” what s/he wanted to say, instead of talking

2)
The teacher can establish a “Dear Abbey Box” – have a folder available with forms on which a student can write something that is troubling him/her and the teacher will answer the “student’s concern” in written form or with a personal conference in the near future.

3)Through a “town meeting”, the class should be engaged in a discussion to evaluate the “problem of talking” and brainstorm solutions.

4) Feedback should be requested from parents either in the form of a “letter home” or a “focus group” on what should be done at school to “stop student chat”.

5) Teachers should plan engaging lessons and scaffold the material to reach the students at their level of understanding.

6) Teachers should have enough activities for bell-to-bell learning.

7) As a way for students to develop “awareness” of the problem of sdent chat, there should be a school-wide Questionnaire

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