This week was very eye opening to me. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do my action research project on, until I brainstormed with my principal and other co-workers about what would be beneficial to our school at this point. It was just interesting because at the beginning of this course I was honestly clueless about what action research really was and really worried that I would not be able to find anything that would be a good action research topic for me. Now... I have lots of questions/concerns that I think would be beneficial. It is great though, because a lot of the blogs I am following have the same questions as I do. I am very interested and excited to learn from my peers. This is proof that when you work together and share things with one another... you get twice as much accomplished.
As for now, I have not "officially" started my research, other than just listening and noting teacher comments about the subject. Looking forward to getting it going and seeing what beneficial things I learn.
I agree with you. The thought of doing action research at the beginning of the course was quite daunting. But now that we've heard other people's ideas and read about what action research really is ideas are flowing. I can't wait to read you research plan.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested to learn about what you find out about walthroughs. I have had experience with different types of walkthroughs. We used a version of them in my old school district, where teachers walked through other teachers classrooms to learn from them. I also had the principal walk through looking for specific things like word walls and posted objectives. I wonder what types of walkthroughs you will be focusing on.
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