Effect Of Cognitive Restructuring And Shaping Techniques In Handling Lateness To School Among Secondary School Students

Day 5 (5th session) Monday
Objective: Adverse effect of missing morning assembly.
Step 1:    The researcher happily welcomed the students, made a roll call and congratulated them. She said:      My good and beloved students, you are all welcomed. How is your academic work? I hope you did the assignment I gave you in the last meeting.   As the students were answering the questions she was nodding her head and smiling.
Step 2: The researcher told the students to mention the effects of missing morning assembly. As they were doing that, she was writing them down. She told the students that missing morning assembly meant missing information given during announcements. Since you miss the information, you might go contrary to the announcements and thus be punished.
While on punishment, others will be studying, and those of them you were better than academically and in some other things in the school will begin to go ahead of you. This was because by the time you might be through with the punishment, you will be so tired and disorganized to face your studies. Just as you mentioned, absence from morning assembly could make you miss scholarship opportunities and vital gifts given to students during morning assembly.
Step 3:    The researcher told the students to consider what missing the scholarship opportunities to the university meant to a student who have been finding it difficult to pay his or her schools fees, or who was always sent out of the examination hall because of his inability to pay his/her school fees.
Question time: The researcher asked the students few questions to find out how much impact the treatment was making on the students’ irrational thoughts, ideas, philosophies and beliefs about lateness. She also gave the students the opportunity to ask their own questions which she tried to answer to their satisfaction.
Closure: The session came to an end with the researcher giving the students home work to write on the effects of missing class lessons. The students departed with a hand shake to the researcher and with one another.
Day 6 (6th session) Wednesday Objective: Effect of missing class lessons.
Step 1:   The researcher welcomed the students.    She said; my lovely ones, I hope you woke up hale and hearty this morning.
Step 2:   The researcher asked the students to read out at least one effect each, of the effects of missing class lesson on them. As they were doing so, she nodded her head with smiles.
Step 3:   The researcher picked the mentioned effect of missing class lessons one after the other. She explained that missing morning lessons when subjects like English language and mathematics were taught have serious impact on them, since these subjects determine their moving to the next class and admission into any tertiary institution like the university to pursue any course. She further told them that teachers cannot repeat the topic they had already taught in their absence from classes. That as day students, they rarely have time for theis studies at home and that borrowing note may not be very helpful for obvious reasons. She told the too that if they were late severally, their results will become poor as they fail examinations, class assignments and tests. Worst still, that they could end up in jail in an attempt to cheat in examinations in order to have better results. Moreover, because they have become habitual latecomers, going late to examinations with the resultant effect of examination failures many times, their parents might decide to withdraw them from school.
Question time: The researcher told the students to ask questions which she answered to their satisfaction. She also asked them her own questions.
Closure: She ended the session with an assignment in which the students were to think out what could be long-run effect of lateness to school on them.