Survey

I have come to realize that creating a survey is a bit more complicated than once thought. I am learning a lot through this project. I have found that simple things can make big changes.

Example
I have a student who is not a part of my focus group on purpose. I felt that including him would only play into his mothers hands of treating him like a baby. Therefore, I have decided to take a different positive communication approach with him. Recently, I have started to praise just very little things and encouraging him to be a good example like I know he can. On Thursday I saw a breakthrough and again today I saw a breakthrough.
On Thursday, he was sitting across from another student who was having great difficulty keeping his feet to himself. During this time he was kicking my other student. At the beginning of the year, student A would have kicked back and caused a problem. However, he instead chose to move himself out of the kicking line of fire. This helped to defuse student B who was kicking.
Today, I was informed of a wonderful behavior decision he made on Friday when I was not there. My assistant, who is aware of my project, informed me of what a wonderful job he did in making the decision. We both praised him and talked about how grown up he is becoming and what a leader he is starting to become.
After these two instances, I am concluding that the more positive encouragment and feedback I give to this student the greater the opportunity that he will continue to make such progress. I am very excited with these outcomes.