Action Research Plan Week 3

GOAL: Identify effective strategies and materials that teachers can use to improve the reading achievement of recent immigrant students.
Action Step(s)             Person(s)                Timeline:                Needed                                   Responsible              Start/End               Resources       Evaluation
1. I will go to collect recent immigrant students’ data from Perm Records	Rosa Roque	4/30/2012 5/4/2012	Perm Records	List of recent immigrant students
2. Conduct a DMAC study to analyze data	Rosa Roque	5/7/2012 5/11/2012	Computer	State test results
3. Conduct interviews with teacher of recent immigrant students	Rosa Roque Mr. Cesar Limas Alondra Galvan	5/14/2012 5/25/2012	Meeting time Conference room	List of potential strategies and materials used
4. Review interventions Plans	Rosa Roque Counselor-  Mrs. Briseada Gonzalez	6/11/2012 6/15/2012	Meeting time Copies of Interventions	List of potential strategies and materials used
5. Gather strategies used by teachers	Rosa Roque Sylvia Joseph Alondra Galvan	08/13/2012 08/17/2012	Meeting time Conference room	List of potential strategies and materials used
6. Present report to my supervisor, discuss effective/ineffective strategies and materials and make recommendations	Rosa Roque	08/27/2012 08/31/2012	Final report	Minutes of meeting

Week 2 Reflection

My reflections of the intereviews:

It is true, in real life there are infinity of problems that principals have to face, but it is good to know that there are many solutions out there that we can use that way we don’t have to re-create the wheel. Knowing what others leaders are doing today can help students and teachers provide security. We just have to “Google” it like Dr. Briseno said.

Both on the necessity and the benefit of using research to the students’ success. It was very important for me to watch these videos by experts because they pointed out aspects about data that could be used by us carefully leaders focus. 


My Action Research topics:

I choose topic number two, six and fifteen from my intern plan number two says: Create a reading plan for struggle students to increase motivation for reading, number six says: Create a collaboration group and participate in decision making to improve test scores, and number fifteen says: Meet with a current leader involved in implementing a district/school change. Find out why the change was made and what steps were taken the change. My supervisor agreed with my topics and we decided to go with the one about creating a reading plan for struggle students to increase motivation for reading.

Blogs for Educational Leaders

Since many teachers are using face book, twitters, e-mails, etc., educational leaders might have teachers create their own blog to share classroom experiences. This way they can interact with each other about  advice and techniques that are working for their students.

Action Research is...

I learned that action research is a tool that I need to use to grow professionally.  These research actions are based on intentional studies with real problems about teachers and principals real actions.  Through research we can capture problem areas to study and develop a way to improve it. There are several forms to do research, but the most important way is that we are not alone; principals and teachers can meet to identify areas of worry to us in the classrooms. Then we can meet periodically to share experiences, reflect and change according with our own necessities through researches.  Now I will be able to make my own research with classroom experiences, principals’ advice and course’ partners interactions.  I will create my own Blog to share my research with my course partners. I am sure that I will learn from other teachers’ techniques and strategies that they are using in the real world of teachers.  I will now prefer to do action research because it is based on daily occurrences in my own classroom rather than reading about what somebody else did in theirs.  I can have my colleagues input as well on what improvements I can make in the classroom.