Tuesday March 18th 2014

Circle: What did you think about some of the answers that teachers gave you about what to do in school to raise graduation rates?


Article: Poorer kids often depressed as teenagers



Transcript Activity
Breaking into groups you will investigate these transcripts.  What can you tell me about the person in each?  How do we explain their record in school?  What could influence them?  What might there homelife be like?  Friends? Childhood? etc.
Transcript #1
Transcript #2

Check Homework:  Create a profile for each of the two transcripts:  What was their childhood like?  Parents?  Economic Status?  Relationship with teachers?  Friends?  Sports?  Drugs/Alcohol?  Personality?

What did Teachers say on Monday?
Generate questions for interviews...

Activity forClass:
Interviewing adults in building about biggest influences in students academic achievement?  What can we really do about it?
You will be interviewing staff in the building using the questions generated the previous class.  Going out in groups of two or three you will conduct interviews using the transcripts.
For the interview process make  sure you do the following:
1. Introduce your self
2. Explain that this is part of your Psychology class
3. Use the transcripts as the basis for you questioning.
4. Make sure to record the staff responses.
5. Thank the staff for their time.