Effects of cooperative learning and behavior modification strategies in ethnic minority students

Abstract

The present work is a practical experience carried out in the first level of the first cycle of secondary education institutions. I’ve done it during the third assessment period, alter, having observed in the support classroom the presence of certain levels of inappropriate behaviour in the period between January and March (2nd term). We want to emphasize in my work the importance of the identification by the teacher and the group of students who are part of the sample of this study of perceived as maladaptive behaviour in the classroom as an essential part of the methodology of this research. This experiment was carried out with a total of 18 students of 1st ESO, 6 of whom showed inappropriate behaviour in the support classroom and ethnic minority were. Following the commitment of parents, teacher and students, it was decided to implement a behaviour modification technique which consisted of conducting cooperatively and jointly and the assessment and identification of the behaviour we thought were more frequent and harmful to the proper functioning of the classroom. From that moment, the students wrote written dailys with the dialogues that usually accompany these behaviours, after that, they performed and discussed them in class. The result of this research has been very successful because the students were involved from the outset in the experience, they had higher levels of engagement in behavioural change and the behaviors dropped within a short period of time thereby improving the academic performance of all students in the 3nd term (assessment period).