The document discusses strategies for fostering accountability in students. It suggests having students create "Self Help Plan Sheets" when grades are low to outline goals and steps to improve. This puts the responsibility on students to take a proactive approach. The document also recommends having students call parents when misbehaving to admit wrongdoing themselves. Establishing clear routines and awarding points for positive actions can further encourage student accountability. The reflective approach of having students grade their daily commitment can also help them recognize their responsibilities.

1. Fostering
Accountability

2. What?
• Accountability has sometimes also been
used as a synonym for responsibility.
• Accountability implies a statement of
explanation of one’s conduct.
• In common words accountability implies
answerability to a person or body that
has trusted you with a task or duty.
• It empowers the doer.

3. ???
• Do you have students who constantly make
excuses for incomplete work?
• Do they try to blame poor grades and
behavioral issues on their teachers or fellow
students without assuming any responsibility
for their actions?
• Do they mis-construct their mistakes while
recounting the day's activities to a parent?
• Is there anything you can do to change their
ways?

4. Doable classroom strategy
• “Establish, practice, and enforce expectations
and consequences”
• “The goal is for students to take ownership of
their behavior”
• Kids respond better to a teacher who models
respectful behavior, even when responding to
disrespect.
• Say No to ‘these are the worst kids’ stigma.

5. A Plan for Academic accountability
• When students have a low grade at the
midterm in her class, give them a “Self help
plan sheet”.

6. Self Help Plan Sheet
S. No. GOALS STEPS TO MEET THE GOAL SIGNATURE
1. No Incomplete
assignment
Make TT working backwards
from due date.
Take help if assignment is
difficult.
Complete 1 day before due day.
Parent -
2. Target grade – A2 Identify target units.
Take help to understand or
revise.
Teacher -
3. Proficiency in
Multiplication
Make a table chart and put on
wardrobe door.
Recite a set of tables before
bedtime everyday.
Student -

7. The Plan contd…
• This makes the students take more of a
proactive approach to their classwork.
• After reassessing and discussion along with
parents review the plan, modify if required.
• Parent involvement helps to ensure that
students are held accountable at home and
school.

8. Documentation
• If they do not have the assigned
homework/classwork/project etc, they must
fill out an excuse slip and hand that in along
with parent signature.
• This excuse slip is pasted in a class record
book.
• This slip requires students to put their excuse
in writing, creating documentation for their
missing work.

9. Turn Up the Volume on Student Voice
• Ask students to call their parents as
consequence for cheating, disruption, or
other serious misbehavior.
• Teacher should stand by as students make
the call/talk and confess to the parent .
• This practice puts the focus on the student as
the cause for the behavior and helps him /
her take ownership of the behavior.

10. Set a Routine
• Class routines should be modeled and
implemented from the first day of school and
consistently carried out.
• Teacher can put up a new name on a card on a
cloth clip everyday that says who will be
responsible for what work that day.
Eg: Mohit – Check HW
Pooja – Clean up of room.

11. Awards
• Give kids points for participation and efforts
made.
• Awarding points/giving positive remarks for
positive actions helps students to be
responsible for their own success.
• Find ways to document and display points or
positive remarks.

12. “The Reflective Approach”
• To reflect upon themselves and create an
effort and achievement scale that students
complete daily.
• Students grade their daily commitment to
schoolwork on a 1-4 scale. At the end of the
month, they tally their scores on a graph and
explain what the graph says about them
meeting their school responsibilities.

13. Teacher Accountability
Moral Professional Legal
Intellectual Social

14. Modes of Accountability
• Moral accountability: - is based upon a feeling
that one is responsible to ones’ clients –
students and parents.
• Professional accountability: - responsibility to
oneself and colleagues.
• Legal/Contractual accountability: - towards
employers.

15. • Intellectual accountability: - intellectual
efficiency of the subject and structure of the
subject he/she teaches.
• Social accountability: - responsibility of
teachers to inculcate social values and virtues
in students, enabling them to become socially
useful/productive citizens.

16. Final Words
• Holding one accountable for their work one
can achieve and maintain a personal level of
excellence.
• In conclusion teachers must realize that,
accountability does not throw humiliation on
them, rather it multiples the worth and
respect of their professions. This is the only
way to revitalize the present educational
scenario.