Charles Bardwell’s Action Research Template for EDLD 5301
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Tool 7.1 Action
Planning Template
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Goal: Increase the success of freshman in
high school by equipping them with the proper study and organizational skills.
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Action Step(s)
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Person(s)
Responsible
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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1. Identify students to enroll in one section
of a College Readiness and Study Skills course for the spring of 2013.
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Freshman
Transition Team:
Steve Steinke, Marilyn Scalia, Charles Bardwell
Counselors: Karen Kruger,
MaryAnn Briggs, Melissa Whittington, Stephanie Pelfrey, Michelle Oliver, Kay
Farris, Lori Robinson
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December
7, 2012/ January 7, 2013
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Time,
personnel, data obtained through e-school (list of freshman failing one or
more subjects, first nine week, second nine week, and semester averages),
criteria for selecting students.
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One
section of a College Readiness and Study Skills course will be created and
populated for the spring of 2013.
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2. Teach the students enrolled in the College
Readiness and Study Skills course the study and organizational skills needed
to be successful as a freshman in high school. Monitor the students’ progress.
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Teacher: Marilyn Scalia,
Freshman
Transition Team:
Steve Steinke, Marilyn Scalia, Charles Bardwell
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January
8, 2013/
June
7, 2013
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Money,
teacher, classroom, planners. paper,
use of a copy machine.
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The students’
1st semester grades will be compared to their 2nd
semester grades.
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Examining What We Do to Improve Our
Schools Sandra
Harris, Stacey Edmonson, Julie Combs
© Eye On Education
I am a high school teacher in San Antonio and I think that organizational skills are a huge contributor to a students success or lack thereof. It is very frustrating to hand out an assignment and have a student just stuff it into their backpack along with a bunch of other crumpled pieces of paper from other classes. I will be very interested to see how successful your class is.
ReplyDeleteGreat goal! I am interested in seeing the results of your research. Are you going to expand the College Readiness and Study Skills class to all freshman or maily target certain freshman?
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of teaching freshmen organization. As the freshman technology instructor at my school, I stress the same things your Readiness course does. You have a great topic for your action research, but I think that it will take more than evaluating grades to assess the organization of the students from that class. There are so many variables that can affect a change in grades, including issues at home, or with a particular teacher or classmate. I think teacher observation of the students in their rooms can be helpful. (We've all seen backpacks with papers hanging out of them.) I would recommend including such observations, or student surveys in your research as a means of more accurately measuring the success of the program.
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