Week 3 Action Research Plan Outline

Reflection of Week 2

After reading Chapter 2 of our book, watching the videos, reading student's action reasearch ideas and completing my assignments, I am much more comfortable with developing my own action research. More than comfortable, I am anxious to dive in and see what I discover. (I find myself comming up with so many topics of interest.) I realize the importance of administrators working with their staff and developing good relationships. The nine passions were very helpful and I am certain will be useful in my career as an administrator as I strive to have a successful campus.

How Educational Leaders Might Use Blogs

Educational leaders can use blogs to continually support teaching and learning. Using a blog would encourage constant interaction between leaders and teachers. Issues are addressed immediatly, a sense of openess and honesty is encouraged and leaders are able to get support from other educational leaders. Leaders might also use blogs to stay current on lastest news in education or use it to inspire or be inspired by other leaders.

AR Description and I May Use It

Research Action is centered on how we can change instruction to engage students. It is a process of descussion and examinatin of issues or concerns of colleagues. Teachers and principlas search for ways to improve student achievment, improve and keep instruction current and resolve problems that occure in school regularly. Simply put, Action Research is studying and researching what is going on in our school and collaborativly deciding on how to improvev it. This can be done by indentifying the problem, developing and applying an Action Research Plan, gathering and examining findings, and evaluating and discussing results. I can utilize Action Research by first determining a classroom learning problem - student's lack of interest and motivation to learn and stay in school and how Work-Based Learning can help. Next, I would research how Work-Based Learning can decrease dropout rates, motivate students, improve scores, help students prepare for their future and see value in their education. Now I would develop a plan of action with a team of teacher. We could take our findings from the research and determine our best options for carrying out of WBL program. Now we will assess our efforts int he WBL program and continue to collect data to determine improvements. If positive results are not determined we will reevaluate our plan and make changes as needed.