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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Action Research Plan

Below is a draft of my Action Research Plan.  I thought that I had to have my supervisor revise it before I posted it for week 3, but I guess not.  I read and re-read the overview, syllabus, and any other document that I had about my supervisor reviewing it, but I didn't find anything.  What I did find was that this coming week (4) is the week where I have to have my supervisor review my action research plan.  So below is my draft, but it looks pretty good.  Hopefully, I'll find some more things to do, as I am conducting my plan.  Lots of Luck and guidance to everyone and of course myself.  =)



Action Planning Template
Goal:      Determining the main reason why a student miss behaves or gets into trouble.

Action Steps(s):
Person(s) Responsible:
Timeline: Start/End
Needed Resources
Evaluation

Discussing research plan with site supervisor



Mary Lou Rodriguez and Noelia Valenzuela

August 6, 2012 – August 10, 2012
  

Action Research Plan and Internship Plan

N/A

Collecting data and reviewing past history of students attending detention and behavior  (a # of 7th, and 8th grade)



Noelia Valenzuela,
PEIMS/Referral Supervisor 

August 27, 2012 – October 5, 2012


Collecting and Review last year records for the 7th and 8th grade students.

N/A

Review student guidelines on Behavior/Discipline


Noelia Valenzuela

August 27, 2012 – August 31, 2012


A.P. Solis Middle School Student Handbook

N/A

Collecting data / keeping record of 6th grade students going to AC
(1st time at MS)


Noelia Valenzuela, and AC Teacher(s)

August 27, 2012 – December 14, 2012

Student Logging Sign-In Sheet, PEIMS/Referral Supervisor

N/A

Monitoring Students attending AC because of behavior/discipline (7th and 8th Grade)


AC Teachers, PEIMS/Referral Supervisor, Noelia Valenzuela

October 8, 2012 – February 15, 2013

Student Logging Sign-In Sheet, AC Teachers

N/A

Survey all Students in AC classroom



Noelia Valenzuela and AC Teacher(s)


August 27, 2012 – February 15, 2013


Survey

N/A

Teacher/Student Evaluation


Noelia Valenzuela, PEIMS/Referral Supervisor, Teachers


August 27, 2012 – December 14, 2012

Evaluation Form

N/A

Collecting Student and Teacher Survey and reviewing all data collected


Noelia Valenzuela

December 17, 2012 – January 4, 2013

Surveys, Forms

N/A

Discussing all Behavior problems, situations, and/or concerns with Teachers and Administration and developing some strategies to improve student behavior and/or concerns


Noelia Valenzuela, Mary Lou Rodriguez, and Teachers

February 15, 2013

2011-2012 Referral/AC Records, Teacher/Student Evaluation, Student Survey, 2012-2013 Referral/AC Records

Evaluating all different strategies that can and may be used.

Applying some of the strategies to the behavior to diminish student behavior  in classroom and student attendance in AC


Teachers,    Mary Lou Rodriguez, Noelia Valenzuela

February 18, 2013 – April 30, 2013  

Classroom Environment, Student Discipline (Handbook), Teacher’s teaching styles, student behavior

Compare previous and current classroom environment, teaching style, student behavior

Monitoring student behavior and recording students attending AC.


AC Teacher(s), Noelia Valenzuela

February 18, 2013 – April 30, 2013

Teachers, Administration,  Surveys, recordkeeping

N/A

Write a paper or produce a graph with Student Behavior (2011-2012 and 2012-2013)


Noelia Valenzuela

May 1, 2013 – May 31, 2013 

Teacher and Student Surveys, Forms, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 records


N/A

Share the paper or graph of Student Behavior with Administration


Noelia Valenzuela

June 3, 2013 – June 7, 2013

Teacher and Student Surveys, Forms, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 records


Administration evaluating different behaviors and examining what strategies can be applied to create better results


Write a Self-Reflection on my research plan


Noelia Valenzuela

June 10, 2013 – July 31, 2013

2011-2012 and 2012 – 2013 records, Teacher/Student Surveys and evaluation, Forms, Sign In Sheet


N/A

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like a great plan. I am looking forward to your results. It seems that discipline is an issue at your campus. More teachers should be involved in the process. I think that students might take ownership if they assisted in writing class rules. Just an idea that I have used in the past and students love it because whenever there was an infraction, I would remind them that I was not the one who wrote the rules. The students did and that made a HUGE difference.

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  2. I look forward to the results of your research. I would fix the misspelling in your goal: should be misbehaves. I added a second question to my goal that leads to where I'm going with it. So, once you find out why a student misbehaves, then what? What's the overall purpose of finding this out? What do you hope to achieve? I don't know if this is a necessary part of it, but it's a thought. I also agree with the previous comment. You might look into something called Capturing Kids' Hearts. It's all about building relationships with students and a part of it involves the students answering 4 key questions which lead to the development of a class contract that the class signs. Anytime an infraction occurs they are reminded of the contract and with a good facilitator in the beginning the students get pretty good at keeping each other in line.

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  3. Have you consider the home environment as a factor in your plan? The reason I asked, is some students have a rough home life or they are the caretakers of younger siblings while the parents have to work. You need to consider those students as well.

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  4. I hope that through your research we can then look at solutions to control behavior in the classroom. I feel that a huge issue for the problems in education is the lack of discipline in schools.

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