Action Research Plan

Hello all and welcome to another stressful week..... A thorwing up baby, family, self..... what a 7 days. But it has been a interesting 7 days with a lot of learning. We started our Action Research Plans. I decided to stray away from classroom management. I found that there may just be too many things that might effect that. So I have decided to track the progress of our students taught by different teachers. Specifically 2nd graders and how they are being taught and how that will effect them in their growth. Here are the details Tell Me whatcha think!!!!!

The Action Research Plan is something that has hit home with me because I am actually living what I am going to be researching. Here at Ginnings, we are going to do a action research plan where we look at the teachers in 2^nd grade and their math scores. We aren’t just looking at scores we are looking at each individual classroom and the amount of rigor that is taught in mathematics. With the STAAR test changing and upping in rigor we have found that math is going to become multiple steps. Before on standardized tests in Texas you might have seen a test question that hit on one TEK or objective. Now we are looking at seeing a question that will hit multiple TEKS. With that being said we are going to look at the scores of the students who are in a more rigorous environment versus those who who are still being taught with one step objective math problems.

Since we are heavily into PLC’s this will help facilitate more rigor throughout the school. By sharing what we are doing that is the foundation of a great PLC. We will use the data to look at the common assessment scores as well as the benchmark scores of the individual students in each classroom to see what strategies are helping them the best, not only in 2^nd grade, but 3^rd grade also.

To support the statements or findings that we will come up with we will use the scores of the children. As well as the curriculum that each teacher uses and what curriculum is used. We are going to also go through the curriculum and with the math interventionist decide which is more rigorous. Thus will give us a idea of which children fall into which category.

As we conclude on our action plan by December of next year we hope to have a idea that those that are being taught at a more rigorous, multiple step level are the more successful students. However, Im sure that some questions will arrive such as can we not just “drill and kill?” or we are “teaching the curriculum we are given.” Or “I am teaching the TEK.” However, the best practices are whats best for students. I’m hopeful this research will show that.