Action research plan: On how to help struggling bilingual students who receive little or no help at home succeed at school.
Goal: Is to identify and help struggling bilingual students which receive no help at home because of different reasons, succeed at school receiving specific help from teachers.
Teacher’s integration goal: Students will develop self confidence in learning and in the way they learn by being motivated to do that on their own requiring minimal help from an adult. Giving material that is developmentally adequate to their understanding level.
Action step: Identify target students that are in the need of help.
Time-line:August
Resources:Identify material that is required by each student to be used at home on their own.
Person Responsible:Internee
Evaluation: During the first week teacher will collect the material and evaluate its functionality.
Action step: Utilize the CPG to find material that will be covered during the 5 following weeks.
Time line: September
Resources: CPG
Person Responsible: Internee
Evaluation: Make adequate changes to the material to be at students’ level.
Action step: Analyze the results from first week and adjust material and find additional one if it is required due to the level of difficulty.
Time line: October
Resources: Review results from material supplied during first week.
Person Responsible: Internee
Evaluation: First 5 weeks test, evaluation and data tabulation.
Action step: Data analysis, evaluation and interpretation.
Time line: November
Resources: Review of material Conference with students to find out if the material was adequate and if they run into any difficulties.
Person Responsible: Internee
Evaluation: Use similar material in class to work independently to evaluate if the student can handle the material. Document reactions and results from students and comment with counselor if there are any special issues that need to be documented to seek additional help for students like SST.
Action step: Adjust and make changes as needed according with results and conference with parents.
Time line: December / January
Resources: Evaluate students progress vs. benchmark and parents follow up on students’ progress at home.
Person Responsible: Internee
Evaluation: Observe students results from test and benchmark and parents observations to determine if the material is working or is taking the student to a frustration level.
Adjust the material may require the teacher to revise the previous grade CPG.
Action step: Review results
Time line: January / February
Resources: Analyze material turned in by students.
Person Responsible: Internee
Evaluation: Determine at a percentage level if the plan is working by quantitatively finding the progress of students.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
What I learned about Action Research week two
What I learned about Action Research is that gives teachers the skills needed to work on problems specific to their classrooms and their schools. By using an actual research procedure, researching teachers can resolve their own teaching challenges. They learn how to ask a focusing question, define terms, collect relevant data, use an analysis process that rules out bias, and includes methods that yield validity and reliability.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Action Research
Action Research
Action research is the process in which teachers or principals examine their educational practice in a systematic way using research techniques in a methodological and structured way.
It is based on the following assumptions:
• Teachers and principals work best on problems they have identified for themselves
• Teachers and principals become more effective when encouraged to examine and assess their
own work and then consider ways of working differently
• Teachers and principals help each other by working collaboratively
• Working with colleagues helps teachers and principals in their professional development Although there are many types of research that may be undertaken, action research specifically refers to a disciplined inquiry done by a teacher with the intent that the research will inform and change his or her practices in the future. This research is carried out within the context of the teacher’s environment that is, with the students and at the school in which the teacher works on questions that deal with educational matters at hand.
(Watts, H. 1985, When teachers are researchers, teaching improves. Journal of Staff Development, 6 (2), 118-127.
There are many types of research that may be undertaken, action research specifically refers to a disciplined inquiry done by a teacher with the intent that the research will inform and change his or her practices in the future. This research is carried out within the context of the teacher’s environment, with the students and at the school in which the teacher works on questions that deal with educational matters.
There is a school of thought in this field that calls for greater professionalization that is teachers should be constantly researching and educating themselves about their area of expertise.
Action research is the idea that teachers will begin a cycle of posing questions, gathering data, reflection, and deciding on a course of action. When these decisions begin to change the school environment, a different set of circumstances appears with different problems posed, which require a new look. Indeed, many action research projects are started with a particular problem to solve, whose solution leads into other areas of study. While a teacher may work alone on these studies, it is also common for a number of teachers to collaborate on a problem, as well as enlist support and guidance from administrators, university scholars, and others. At times, whole schools may decide to tackle a school-wide study to address a common issue, or join with others to look at district-wide issues. (Eileen Ferrance, 2000, Action Research, Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory At Brown University, p. 15-25)
How educational leaders might use blogs.
It can be used as a tool to gather opinion from other teachers and help in the research project. Blogs break the barriers of time and distance, making rich the collaboration at different levels of the research. People will be able to collaborate and be updated with the results and post their opinion. With blogs you can seek advice and opinion from different stake holders.
Action research is the process in which teachers or principals examine their educational practice in a systematic way using research techniques in a methodological and structured way.
It is based on the following assumptions:
• Teachers and principals work best on problems they have identified for themselves
• Teachers and principals become more effective when encouraged to examine and assess their
own work and then consider ways of working differently
• Teachers and principals help each other by working collaboratively
• Working with colleagues helps teachers and principals in their professional development Although there are many types of research that may be undertaken, action research specifically refers to a disciplined inquiry done by a teacher with the intent that the research will inform and change his or her practices in the future. This research is carried out within the context of the teacher’s environment that is, with the students and at the school in which the teacher works on questions that deal with educational matters at hand.
(Watts, H. 1985, When teachers are researchers, teaching improves. Journal of Staff Development, 6 (2), 118-127.
There are many types of research that may be undertaken, action research specifically refers to a disciplined inquiry done by a teacher with the intent that the research will inform and change his or her practices in the future. This research is carried out within the context of the teacher’s environment, with the students and at the school in which the teacher works on questions that deal with educational matters.
There is a school of thought in this field that calls for greater professionalization that is teachers should be constantly researching and educating themselves about their area of expertise.
Action research is the idea that teachers will begin a cycle of posing questions, gathering data, reflection, and deciding on a course of action. When these decisions begin to change the school environment, a different set of circumstances appears with different problems posed, which require a new look. Indeed, many action research projects are started with a particular problem to solve, whose solution leads into other areas of study. While a teacher may work alone on these studies, it is also common for a number of teachers to collaborate on a problem, as well as enlist support and guidance from administrators, university scholars, and others. At times, whole schools may decide to tackle a school-wide study to address a common issue, or join with others to look at district-wide issues. (Eileen Ferrance, 2000, Action Research, Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory At Brown University, p. 15-25)
How educational leaders might use blogs.
It can be used as a tool to gather opinion from other teachers and help in the research project. Blogs break the barriers of time and distance, making rich the collaboration at different levels of the research. People will be able to collaborate and be updated with the results and post their opinion. With blogs you can seek advice and opinion from different stake holders.
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