Date of Award

12-1981

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Education

Department

Education

First Advisor

Daniel J. Rouchie

Second Advisor

Jeanne Donovan

Abstract

One major goal of education is to nurture students who can take responsibility for their continued growth. In meeting this goal, educators must develop responsible problem solvers for society. This project establishes a classroom management model and activities for elementary teachers to use in setting up programs in their classrooms for developing self-responsibility in their students.

Classroom management models, teacher effectiveness, and student characteristics were researched in developing the model and activities presented in Chapter III and IV. In order for teachers to develop responsible problem solvers, the research indicated certain teacher behaviors were needed. Also, the research demonstrated that a student's positive self-concept along with the acceptance of responsibilities for self increased the students engaged learning time in the classroom, thereby increasing proficiency in learning.

Self-responsibility was found to involve both self-reinforcement and self-management. This author then began to work from a conceptual base of a classroom management program to initiate strategies for the development of self-responsible students in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor areas. It is believed the management program and strategies are educationally sound because they offer elementary teachers appropriate ways to measure the development of self-responsibility in individual children. An elementary classroom that uses classroom management techniques and provides an environment that encourages student self-responsibility will be able to insure the emergence of responsible problem solvers.

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