790 Research Action
Action Research is exciting. I consider myself a data person so everytime I would get the school started with SMART goals and working with teachers to test, plan and refine, that was one of my favorite things to do. So, I am ready to get started. Of course my downfall right now is time. Trying to manage my planning of my 3rd grade class and all that entails in Distance Learning and my own children, let alone my house and exercise and .... it goes on. So, my goal this week is to organize my time.
Last Friday, I was able to record my students sharing an item from home in a smaller group in a Zoom breakout room. I was impressed with those that we could hear but realized that my students have some major problems with their technology or internet because there were many that we could not understand. I will have to look into that. I can't wait to look at the transcripts just to get some information. This was not an official baseline test as they were not using academic language, I just wanted to get started and test my system. So, I have some tech issues to deal with first.
Reading Mertler and the detailed step by step plan for action research really helped me calm down and not feel overwhelmed as did my meeting with Dr. Redmond and Dr. Craig. I still feel worried that my research is not innoative enough but they reassured me that anything right now is innovative. I really need to take that to heart because I have never done this before, not even in the spring. It does help that I have been able to observe Zoom classes, that was the bulk of my spring activity. I would much rather be teaching than watching. I guess you could say that I had my own mini observational data session.
I am also conconerned about the potential to have my class change soon. Actually, it is pretty much a given that my class will change. I would like to stay home and teach but not all my students will stay home. But we will have to chalk that up to something I can't control so I have to let it go. The bright side of that is that I feel like I bonded with my class fairly quickly so hopefully we will be able to get throught the changes together and start really learning.
My essential question has not changed much as I am still wondering how we can prevent long term English lerners but I will need to narrow my focus to academic oral language.
Action Research is exciting. I consider myself a data person so everytime I would get the school started with SMART goals and working with teachers to test, plan and refine, that was one of my favorite things to do. So, I am ready to get started. Of course my downfall right now is time. Trying to manage my planning of my 3rd grade class and all that entails in Distance Learning and my own children, let alone my house and exercise and .... it goes on. So, my goal this week is to organize my time.
Last Friday, I was able to record my students sharing an item from home in a smaller group in a Zoom breakout room. I was impressed with those that we could hear but realized that my students have some major problems with their technology or internet because there were many that we could not understand. I will have to look into that. I can't wait to look at the transcripts just to get some information. This was not an official baseline test as they were not using academic language, I just wanted to get started and test my system. So, I have some tech issues to deal with first.
Reading Mertler and the detailed step by step plan for action research really helped me calm down and not feel overwhelmed as did my meeting with Dr. Redmond and Dr. Craig. I still feel worried that my research is not innoative enough but they reassured me that anything right now is innovative. I really need to take that to heart because I have never done this before, not even in the spring. It does help that I have been able to observe Zoom classes, that was the bulk of my spring activity. I would much rather be teaching than watching. I guess you could say that I had my own mini observational data session.
I am also conconerned about the potential to have my class change soon. Actually, it is pretty much a given that my class will change. I would like to stay home and teach but not all my students will stay home. But we will have to chalk that up to something I can't control so I have to let it go. The bright side of that is that I feel like I bonded with my class fairly quickly so hopefully we will be able to get throught the changes together and start really learning.
My essential question has not changed much as I am still wondering how we can prevent long term English lerners but I will need to narrow my focus to academic oral language.