Centennial Honors College
Western Illinois University
Undergraduate Research Day 2012
Poster Presentation
Walking Up the Ladder of Productivity
Meghan Pantages
Faculty Mentor: Mary Jensen
Special Education
The purpose of my project was for me and the rest of the class to learn how to create a
behavior plan for our future students. I learned how hard it is to get the plan into action
and then follow thru with it. For my behavior intervention, instead of feeling tired all of
the time, I chose to start working out at the REC center. The first move to start my
behavior plan was to fit it into my schedule, once I had it all planed out I would go during
my break in the morning a walk a mile, then do the elliptical, and walk another mile to
cool down. I set a goal to go to the REC center four days a week. After completing the
task each time I would put a star on my chart. If I exceeded my goal I would then put a
sticker at the end of the chart. As a result of my behavior plan, I hoped that I would have
more energy, and as a result of having more energy I would then get more things done
during the day. I found that when I did go I would get the energy I was hoping to get and
did accomplish getting a lot of things done and would be really productive on those
days. My graphs will show how often I accomplished going to the REC center.