FLASHBACK

While having a coffee break from the paperwork am doing for MARION Learning Center (the franchise business), I made this video...

ASIAN CONFERENCE FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND HIGHER ED RESEARCH

The Asian Research Conference was my first and sure enough, IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING of more attendance to conferences of the like in the future. I'd say my presentation was good enough yet I missed salient points which the veteran presenters (geez! they abound! they outnumbered neophytes like me.) covered in great detail to the point of them failing in time management but STILL, given the highest acknowledgment... the advantage of being a senior ( I will be in that predicament pretty soon... so I rest my case!).

If only there could be a way to make those presentations more engaging and "alive" as the plain, "oral reading" technique of presenters beat the heck out of me and induced rapid production of melatonin, the sleep agent in our body. Yet the compulsion to stay "prim and proper" helped out most of the audience to stay up and awake as everybody was required to wear formal outfit - commendable dress code, served as control of error.

The best thing that happened to me during the conference came from a  female Malaysian professor from  MARA University of Technology (Malaysia), Jane Aw Yang Huey, who presented her book review on "Economics Made Easy" by David H.S. Ng. She presented an excerpt of the 1994 Hudsucker Proxy movie, and left these words as a recap to her presentation, "It is the consumer taste that changes demand, not the price". Which I stated in another way as - show the value of a commodity and demand changes.That struck me and made me realize it's time to be back in business. I have been "dormant" in business for the longest time to "nanny" my kids. Now it's time..... the dragon is awake.

MY PHILAIR INT'L. CONFERENCE RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATION

ABSTRACT

This study has provided a modified behavior management system in the framework of Positive Behavior Supports for the high school department.

Research questions were answered in the current behavior management system status, case referral status, the necessary corrections and modifications, and the modified behavior management design. The conceptual framework was anchored on the multiplicity principle of mixed research method. Eight survey instruments, interviews, and observations were employed to four administrators, twenty-six staff, twenty parents, and one hundred seventy five  students. Data were limited to the high school department only.

Results revealed that the existing Behavior Management System put more weight on the PBS goal of decreasing problem behavior in its current system and missed two equally important goals of a proactive system: prevention of problem behaviors and increase of positive social behaviors. However, it fared well having established a system that kept problem behaviors manageable but not without lapses. Support systems to establish the two other goals and refine the existing one to align with the PBS standards were designed while integrating the unique nuance of spirituality in all the three goals. Direction of further research was suggested.

(key words: PBS, School-wide Positive Behavior Supports, proactive system, discipline,  behavior management )