This week I was exposed to many different ideas for action research.  I also reviewed my internship plan self-evaluations, and reflections.  In doing so, I came up with three ideas for possible action research and scheduled a meeting with my site supervisor.

After discussing several action research ideas with my site supervisor, I chose to do action research on why freshman have a greater number of failures than the other grades in our high school. I chose to perform this research because it will be more curriculum driven and affect a larger group of students.  We began to discuss the possible reasons for the large number of freshman failures.  I will analyze the data and refine the research to the core subject with the greatest percentage of freshman failures.  My site supervisor also recommended I speak to the academic team leader of the core content area with the greatest amount of failures to get his/ her perspective.  To further gain insight into the problem, we will try to visit one of the middle schools that feed into our high school prior to Christmas Break.