What is the SHAPE Process?
- Shape monitors the daily progress of each student through daily point slips completed by mainstream teachers
- The point slip monitors behavior and work habits. It accumulates on a 20 day monthly assessment chart providing students with a detailed 'status' of how well he/she is doing in each individual class.
- Every 20 days, student status is added to the color coded charts on display in the classroom. This assessment is used to show students their status throughout the year. At the end of the year, the 20 day assessments are combined into a yearly cumulative 'status' for each student.
- The SHAPE banquet is a celebration which recognizes students who have maintained excellent and good cumulative status averages. The awards are very meaningful to students since it is the students who have been required to solve their own school and social problems throughout the year without blaming teachers or society. Students at the banquet sometimes become quite emotional because they understand there is nothing phony about these awards. They are fully earned through sweat and willingness to make adjustments.
This daily effort by mainstream teachers and the SHAPE teacher provides each student in the program with a microscopic examination of daily choices and their consequences. The process is intense and unyielding.