Centennial Honors College
Western Illinois University
Undergraduate Research Day 2012
Poster Presentation
From Couch to Cure
Sadie Keefauver
Faculty Mentor: Mary Jensen
Special Education
Once a person has become accustomed to a behavior, the habit is hard to break,
especially for a student with a disability. From a teacher perspective, developing a plan
to help the student overcome a problem behavior and reaching a target behavior is
challenging. Getting a person to change a habit can take time and even trial and errors
of different approaches. Over a period of three months, I have tracked a particular target
behavior of my own. This is to help me see what it takes to transform a behavior from a
general perspective My goal is to go from not exercising at all to being able to run the
5K for the Race for the Cure this May. I have based my exercise training on the
schedule “Couch to 5k”. This means following an interval training three (3) days a week
for thirty minutes each day. My poster presentation will present a week-by-week display
of my behavior and how I have succeeded at changing my behavior. It will also include
what has helped me to change my behavior. To add to the display of my motivation,
some facts about the Race for the Cure will be included. Overall, the poster is to show
the results of a behavior management plan.