Action Research Plan

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.