WEEK 3 EDLD 5301
ACTION RESEARCH PLAN AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS
My Action Research Plan has changed since last week to, “Improving Staff Development.” The purpose of this action plan is to audit the way our school and district handles staff development and to devise a plan to increase interest, participation, collaboration, and enthusiasm with regard to attending and presenting staff development sessions. The focus of this research plan will be the teachers that have to sit through ineffective staff development after staff development and never take anything back to the classroom to be implemented because they never got any time for active engagement and collaboration within core groups or PLC’s to see how the staff development material would work within the scheme of what they are doing within there classrooms.
Questions that will be researched:
1. What can be done to make staff development more interesting, fun, and effective for teachers?
2. What types of activities were done within the last 2 years that made teachers willing to participate and have fun?
3. How much time needs to be built into the staff development for collaboration amongst core groups or PLC’s?
4. How can this staff development be implemented into the classroom?
SCHOOL VISION: NFHS: Making EXEMPLARY students, one student at a time.
GOAL: To devise a plan to increase interest, participation, collaboration, and enthusiasm with regard to attending and presenting staff development sessions.
OUTCOMES: Staff developments that are interesting
Increased teacher participation
Increased teacher collaboration
ACTIVITIES: Fun and active icebreakers
Activity based presentations
Meet with teachers detailing past issues and plans to help
RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED: Teacher feedback: what would be fun?
Research successful staff developments
Staff Development Committee
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES: Administrators advising and giving support
Teachers giving feedback
Committee interviewing teachers
TIME LINE: 2010/2011 school year
Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT : Staff development evaluations
Implementation of staff development into classrooms
Another simple way of gathering data is by doing quick surveys. There is a website, www.surveymonkey.com, that my Librarian has used in the past and that I am planning on using this year. I will post only one question at a time, once a week, so teachers won't feel overwhelmed with information, but at the same can give me their feedback. I'm glad that you will do a brief session on "how to blog". I'm hoping that I will receive the same support from my principal by allowing me to present to the staff my action research. Good luck!
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