Action Research Plan

Action Research Plan

Goal – To improve the student homework completion rate in order to reduce six week failures.


STEPS / PERSON RESPONSIBLE / TIMELINE / RESOURCES / EVALUATION

Step 1 – meeting / between principal, myself / before school year / principal, school lawyer / nominate volunteers, legal ramifications, use of walk through observations, discuss budgetary items if needed, etc.

Step 2 – prepare needed letters for legal consequences / myself, principal, asst. principal / before school starts / myself, principal / proof read legal documents and have approved.

Step 3 – meeting / principal, asst. principal, myself / before school starts / principal, asst, principal / to nominate possible volunteers for each core subjects.

Step 4 – secure video cameras / principal, myself / before school starts / principal, asst. principal, technology director, librarian / to secure and prepare enough cameras for use, to secure any other accessories for use.

Step 5 – meeting / myself, volunteers, principal / beginning of school / teachers, principal, asst. principal / discuss different data collection sources, creation of blogs to use, use of computer labs, begin aligning assignments and projects to video, needed questions.

Step 6 – classroom camera use / teacher volunteers / during six week periods / teachers, librarian, equipments, computer lab, computer lab technician / teachers complete use of cameras on aligned assignments and projects.

Step 7 – collect data / teachers, principal, asst. principal, myself / end of each six weeks, principal, asst. principal, teachers / to organize data and begin creating needed surveys.

Step 8 – meeting / teachers, principal, asst. principal, myself / end of first semester / teachers, administrators, librarian, computer technician, selected students / determine if modifications are needed for second semester.

Step 9 – classroom camera use / teacher volunteers / during six week periods / teachers, librarian, equipment, computer lab, computer lab technician / teachers complete use of cameras on aligned assignments and projects.

Step 10 – collect data / teachers, administrators, myself / end of each six weeks / administrators, teachers, myself / to organize data and continue creating evaluations and surveys needed.

Step 11 – meeting / teachers, administrators, myself / end of fifth six weeks / teachers, administrators, myself, surveys / to hand out surveys, to discuss timeline for last recorded assignment.

Step 12 – collect data / teachers, administrators, myself / middle of sixth six weeks / teachers, administrators, myself / to organize final data to form final evaluation.

Step 13 – meeting / all staff members / end of second semester / all staff personnel / to bring everyone up to date on final analysis and determine possible future use of cameras and blogs.

Looking for answers

I am spending to much time learning how all this works. I am looking for some basics to reduce the amount of time searching. I know how to post. I have worked slowly through the profile business. Here are some things I wonder about.
- How do you create a contact list to get to everyone's blog site?
- Why does my age on the profile sheet say 1955?
-Is there a way to increase the size of posted photos?
-What are the differences between a blog and a wiki site?
-Can videos be placed on blogs?
-How does the follower business work?
-Is it easier to use the email addresses on mylamar? slberry@my.lamar.edu
-What does the save now tab at the bottom of a new post mean or do for you?
I am sure I will have more questions later. Thanks for your time.

SWI

Throughout our school wide investigation, as beginning administrators, I think we all will find out that most of us will have many ideas for improving our schools floating around in our heads. We will all try to do a good job with collaborating with each other, being positive with each other, and helping each other out. One of the key factors we will need to focus on is how do we keep this interest going from year to year. We will have the ever widening pothole in the road called managerial duties to deal with. In a small school district where there are fewer administrators, it will seem like more and more managerial duties are piled on top of us. Soon we are concentrating on managing our schools instead of leading our schools. It will become important for school personnel to teach themselves and learn how to investigate and not lose site at what makes the school improve, the people. Using investigative programs can keep personnel out of a rut, keep them seeing the big picture, and moving toward a common destination, improved students and schools.

EDUCATIONAL iblog

I am shocked, but I am not shocked. I am shocked at how fast technology is taking us into the future and changing our lives. I am not shocked because I grew up in the world of party lines on telephones. Blogging seems to be a new kind of party line. Blogging has the ability to bring more people closer together to share different issues and ideas. In the coaching ranks we call it borrowing ideas to improve an offense, defense, or off-season program.

the A Team

As the school days go, by we in society tend to travel the same route to and from school/work. We see the same students or colleagues day after day at the same scheduled times. It becomes very easy for people to get lost with themselves and fall into the same wagon rut. We begin to observe the roadway from edge of the road to edge of the road. People lose sight of the big picture. We tend to park in the same parking space everyday in hopes that no one steals it and disrupts the day. Peoplw head to the same office space or classroom with the same four walls surrounding us. We hope that nothing or no one will create conflicts in our daily routine. People in society tend to look at other people's problems to generate some change in their lives. To help one see what is going on around them, conflicts and change are needed. People need to slow down in our fast changing world and do a better job of observing and investigating our own surroundings and ourselves. We need to learn more about ourselves to help take on the challenges that the daily unknown can bring into our lives each day.