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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Developing an Action Research Plan


OUTCOMES
ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES
TIME LINE
Benchmarks/
ASSESSMENT

Creating Lifelong learners
 - Conduct research through student grades to determine success.
 - Preparing PBL lessons and having students participate in them.
 - Create a large amount of PBL lessons to create a variety of things students can participate in.

 - Previous classroom data
 - Passing rates of previous years.
 - Graduation rates of previous years.
 - Workforce data
Jason R. Pratt
Chrissy Hester
Gwen Elder
Steve Day
Randy Hootan
Fall 2012 -
Spring 2013
 - Student interviews.
 - High passing rates on exams.
- High passing rates on projects

Promoting success through education
 - Create PBL lessons that are easy enough for the lowest level student in the classroom, but also difficult enough to challenge the high level learner.
 - Create PBL lessons that are fun, so that students will want to participate in them.
 - Create an atmosphere of success and a culture of success within the PBL model.
 - Time to produce these lessons.
 - Continuing look at the Manor Tech model.
 - Funds to get more COWS put into classrooms so that technology can be an integral part of the PBL process.
Jason R. Pratt
Eddie Coulson
Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
Graduation rates.
Low discipline referrals from these classrooms.
Accomplishing success in the world of high stakes testing / Moving PBL to EOC classrooms
 - Produce some PBL lessons for the AP classroom. 
 - Have AP students prepare some PBL lessons they think are appropriate
 - Move the PBL model to EOC exam classrooms.
 - Time is a key resource needed to produce the high amount of lessons to move this concept to other levels.
Jason R. Pratt
Debbie Lange
Samantha Krinhop
April Wilson
April Falco
Spring 2013 – Spring 2014
- AP Microeconomics exam.
- Benchmark exam

6 comments:

  1. I love your action research plan!! I conducted my first PBL in the last 6 weeks of school and I have to admit I was extremely confused. Also, the planning that went into the PBL was cross-curricular and was a challenge at the elementary school level. I am interested to find out how your research plan works out. It should be able to give me some insight on how a PBL should actually work.

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    1. Thank you for your kind words. I hope to have success with PBL and hope that it has the ability to benefit kids and helps them be lifelong learners.

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  2. Your action research plan looks great! PBL is a big one. I love student centered, self directed programs that allows the students to work together to problem solve, etc. This is going to be a big one! I look forward to following you and reading about your results.

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  3. I love your interest and focus on student success. Only suggestion I might make would be to make your outcome goals more specific so that they will be able to be easily measured. Beyond that, your wok looks outstanding! Good luck!

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  4. I like the fact that your focus doesn't just stop with the grades in the class, but extends to graduation! Any and everybody who is pushing for success for the children by pushing them and not lowering the standards to make numbers look good I am all for. The only suggestion I have is the same as Dee Ann. My site supervisor shared with me that goals need to be as specific as possible to be easily measurable. Again, awesome plan and I pray that there will be awesome results.

    God Bless,

    -Mr. D. Mikell

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