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.