Fostering Growth Through Student Self-Image Development and Classroom Engagement to Create an Effective Team; A Classroom Action Research Study
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Authors
Rubino, Amy
Issue Date
2024-09-04
Type
Capstone
Language
en
Keywords
classroom community , team building , student engagement , collaboration , growth , self-confidence , classroom engagament
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This was a classroom action research study focused on unifying student growth, beliefs, and abilities by uniting students, encouraging them to take part in building classroom community, and increase student engagement to create an effective team. The participants were a 2nd grade classroom of 22 students. 17 students' primary language was Spanish, 2 students primary language was Arabic, 1 student's primary language was Russian, 1 student's primary language was Ukrainian, and 1 student's primary language was English. A question that arose during this investigation was how I build student confidence and allow them to grow individually as well as a larger community of learners. My goal was to ensure that students of all backgrounds and
personality types were able to bond, trust each other, grow as individuals, and learn in a collaborative environment to become an effective team. By collecting qualitative data spanning 9 weeks of the school year, I implemented videos, affirmations, mindfulness practices, and group lessons with games week to week in order to promote student self-confidence, foster growth, belief in their own learning abilities, develop classroom engagement, and build community to create an inclusive team environment. Results showed correlation between whole group learning through games and team building with positive inclusive outlooks. As well as positive reflections with the mindfulness applications and an improvement in students reporting positive school day outlooks.
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