Action Research Plan Outline Form

After comparing my plan and the example I have decided to turn it into more of an outline form of which is used in the example. SETTING THE FOUNDATION— Through collaboration with fellow teachers, teaching assistants, and our campus administration our school has decided that increasing parental support at academic and informational meetings held during and after school is at a critical need at the pre-kindergarten level. ANALYZING DATA— I plan to use surveys at the beginning, monthly, and end of the year to continue to analyze the effectiveness of this research. I also plan to keep an eye on sign in sheets for various academic events held during and after school. I will also look up current / past research projects for increasing parental involvement to find ways and try to implement them at my current level taking note of what works or does not work. DEVELOPING DEEPER UNDERSTANDING— I plan to use the interviews of my colleagues, parent focus group and general observation to monitor the progress of this research project. The documents that I will use to develop a deeper understanding are the sign in sheets and surveys collected throughout the process. ENGAGE IN SELF-REFLECTION— Are my goals realistic for a year time frame? How much cooperation / support can I expect from my colleagues and parent focus group. Have I covered all areas and kept my eye on the target; which is increasing parental support at academic and information activities held at the campus during and after school? EXPLORING PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS— Make sure to have regular meetings with site supervisor to go over findings and discuss impact of solutions proposed and determine where to make changes or keep going in instances of success. Make sure to listen to colleagues and parents in the hallways and out in the community for impacts of research and be willing to make adjustments when necessary. DETERMINING DIRECTION— a.     Are you clear on what you are attempting to solve? Yes, I believe that I am clear: I am attempting to increase parental involvement at academic / information sessions held during and after school hours. b.     Have you adequately addressed the skills and resources questions? I believe that I have, but this is something that I will need to keep an eye on throughout the research project. c.      Have you established a collaborative approach to the issue? I believe through the established committee at the school with fellow faculty and the proposed parent panel that I have established a collaborative approach. d.     Are your timelines realistic? Yes, I believe that a year is sufficient to begin to increase involvement, although I think that this is something that can continue to improve even if I am successful this year there will be a new batch of parents coming through who have different needs and the plan will require adjustments. e.     Do you have a reasonable plan to monitor the project? I feel that I do with a parent panel of 20 and the current faculty committee put in place at our campus. I also plan to have surveys at the beginning and end as well as monthly throughout the project. f.       Do you have a reasonable plan for determining the level of success? I feel that if I can get more than 20 parents out of 400 students to participate in events at school through the year that I will consider this plan successful. g.     How will you revise and improve the plan based on monitoring and evaluation? Through the monthly meetings of faculty and parent panel I will make adjustments according the consensus of the group and through meetings with my site supervisor and other administration. TAKING ACTION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Again, the staff parental involvement committee and the parent panel will be the committees that I will work to form to assist me with my action research project. SUSTAIN IMPROVEMENT I hope to find ideas and implement improvement that could be carried out from year to year with only minor tweaking due to the change of parent base. I also hope to develop online tools through the district website which could easily be used from year to year. I will make sure to do my reflections on my blog to share with my fellow colleagues.

Action Research Plan

OUTCOMES	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED	RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES	TIME LINE	Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT	Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments
Increased parental attendance	Math / Literacy night	Parents/ activities/co-workers/ administrators	Me, co-workers, administrators	One school year	Fall and Spring activities after school
Increased parental attendance	Math / Literacy during school hours	Parents / activities/ co-workers/ administrators	Me, co-workers, administrators	One school year	Fall and Spring activities during school
Increased parental attendance	Conscious Discipline information sessions	Parents / Co-workers/ information/ administrators	Me, co-workers, administrators	One semester	Weekly information sessions held in the fall

Week two into 5301

I am siting here tring to reflect on this week' s learning about action research and I have to say that it didn't vary from the information that I learned last week.in fact, it all seems quite repetitive.I did enjoy watching the interviews.it is nice to see and read about real world experiences.

Action Research

I have learned many things about action research. One of the main things that I have learned is that it is not a linear concept, rather an all encompassing idea. Action research requires past research to be considered, data and views from current facilitators, administrators, and the learners that the research will directly impact. Action research is continuously monitored to insure the most beneficial learner-centered impact. Action research gives teachers backing when proposing change to a current situation because it is not just his or her idea, but rather a collection of many views, data, and past research to help substantiate a particular proposed method of action. Currently, I am a pre kindergarten teacher at a campus that houses all the district's pre kindergarten students. I am approaching my third year as a teacher here and have noticed that for the amount of students that we have at our campus, our parental involvement is coinsiderably low. The past year I served on the parental involvement committee and noticed that we had only a handful of parents that were able to make meetings and be involved with their students' first educational experience. There were considerably more parents that made things like Meet and Greet, Parent-Teacher conference day, and class parties. However, I plan to use action research to find ways to increase parental involvement at things like, parental education (we currently offer conscious discipline classes for parents), academic functions such as math and language activities rather day time or night. ------------------------------------------ Educational leaders may use blogs to help in developing or narrowing down action research topics. Blogs are also a way to self monitor progress in that reflection of things that have been done and the consequences therein, the educator is able to save valuable time by focusing on what is working. Blogs also help because of the comments that come from other colleges, and vested interest parties to affirm or help reshape objectives in the research process that hello maintain a learner-centered approach.