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Action Planning
Template
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Goal: To improve
student learning with use of updated online resources related to current
objectives.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Creating
online website with general information and general classroom resources.
(i.e. Gizmos, syllabus, extra worksheets, and contacts.)
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Abby Van
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Decemeber
2012 – January 2013
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-Teacher
Webpage
-Electronic
copies of syllabus and worksheets
-Electronic
instructions to use Gizmos and online Textbook
-Prepared
videos to guide students through extra worksheets
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Gather feedback
from site mentor, department head, content area team, and the website
supervisor
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Offer
students and parents the webpage as a learning resource or aide.
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Abby Van
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January
2013 – February 2013
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-Take home
letter to parents informing them about the new online webpage for student and
parent access.
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Daily/weekly
reminders to and feedback from students
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Update and
changes to webpage daily/weekly as needed based on changing classroom
objectives and student feedback.
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Abby Van
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January
2013 – May 2013
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-Testing data
and grades
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Student
feedback and monitoring improvement through grades and testing data.
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Survey
students on use of the webpage and the helpfulness of the webpage
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Abby Van
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March 2013
and May 2013
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-Surveys
-Testing
data
-Grades
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Reviewing
the results of the surveys and comparing the grade improvements between
student who used the webpage and students who did not
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Final
Evaluation
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Abby Van,
Larri Hicks, Shelly Mitchell
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May 2013 –
June 2013
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-Data
spread sheets on grade improvements and survey data
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Review
qualitative and quantitative data with site mentor and data specialist to
determine the value of offering online resources to the students of our
campus
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
The Plan
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Action Research in the Making
My Reflection
After this last weeks assignment, I realized how much a principal was in charge of; I knew it was a lot, but when you look at it as what everything one would try to improve, it is so much. I think my favorite part of the assignment was watching the videos, especially Dr. Kirk Lewis' (may be it's because he is my superintendent). He mentioned making research practical and applicable to your specific campus or district, how it would be easier and more interested to you as the researcher. When I was trying to come up with the research plan, I was not thinking about if the plan that would most interest me, I was thinking about how could I make the best change or improvement, which should be inconsideration too of course, but making sure the research interests me would probably affect the quality of the my research. However, I do still want to continue with the action research idea I have.
My Action Research IDEA
My action research idea so far, if you could please leave advice or comment for it, is to introduce an "active" online resource page for my student, who are mainly economically disadvantage student. The reason why I want to do this project, even when it is obviously a great idea since I am sure many teachers do this today, is because a lot of teachers are reluctant to use their websites as a tool for their instruction for our students since not many of them do not have internet access. My "active" online resource page would include weekly or daily updates of worksheets and demo videos for students and parents to be able to access at home. I am hoping students who do not have computers or access to the internet would use the computer labs which are open certain days after school, or at least give them more incentive to.
My Control Groups
Although I did not think I needed a control group and a experimental group, my mentor recommended that I do. It was hard deciding what should be my control, since I have 3 Algebra I classes and 3 Algebra I - Inclusion classes. So after talking our campus Statistics teacher, I decided I will pick two of each type of classes to be my experimental group and the other one of each will be my control. I will be able to compare data several difference ways, according to my friendly stats teacher.
After this last weeks assignment, I realized how much a principal was in charge of; I knew it was a lot, but when you look at it as what everything one would try to improve, it is so much. I think my favorite part of the assignment was watching the videos, especially Dr. Kirk Lewis' (may be it's because he is my superintendent). He mentioned making research practical and applicable to your specific campus or district, how it would be easier and more interested to you as the researcher. When I was trying to come up with the research plan, I was not thinking about if the plan that would most interest me, I was thinking about how could I make the best change or improvement, which should be inconsideration too of course, but making sure the research interests me would probably affect the quality of the my research. However, I do still want to continue with the action research idea I have.
My Action Research IDEA
My action research idea so far, if you could please leave advice or comment for it, is to introduce an "active" online resource page for my student, who are mainly economically disadvantage student. The reason why I want to do this project, even when it is obviously a great idea since I am sure many teachers do this today, is because a lot of teachers are reluctant to use their websites as a tool for their instruction for our students since not many of them do not have internet access. My "active" online resource page would include weekly or daily updates of worksheets and demo videos for students and parents to be able to access at home. I am hoping students who do not have computers or access to the internet would use the computer labs which are open certain days after school, or at least give them more incentive to.
My Control Groups
Although I did not think I needed a control group and a experimental group, my mentor recommended that I do. It was hard deciding what should be my control, since I have 3 Algebra I classes and 3 Algebra I - Inclusion classes. So after talking our campus Statistics teacher, I decided I will pick two of each type of classes to be my experimental group and the other one of each will be my control. I will be able to compare data several difference ways, according to my friendly stats teacher.
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