Week 2, EDLD 5301, EA 1244
This week I learned about the 9 passions of action research in education. The nine areas are staff and curriculum development, individual teachers and students, school culture/community, leadership, management, school performance, and social justice or equity issues. When we look at these different areas, we start to wonder and think about ways to improve different aspects of each area, this leads us to action research. For my action research I will be looking at the fifth passion: individual students. I will be looking at ways to decrease freshmen failure rate. I think this is a critical group because it's a way of preventing a lot more issues in the future and I want to find ways to help them stay in school and succeed. I would also like to look at their reasons for being absent since I believe that if students come to class, then they will have a better chance of learning, doing their work, and graduating. I wonder how all this relates and what the best approach is.
I will look forward to reading about your action research. I really have not had problems with attendance in my elementary school but I believe that the problem may be bigger with middle school and high school students. I think parents are more dedicated in getting their child ready for school in the elementary age, especially working parents that need them in a safe place. Once the child can basically take care of themselves, parents are not in the picture much because they are working. It just a hypothesis I have.
ReplyDeleteI really like it and I never saw it that way. Now I can see how attendance is not the same type of problem for elementary. Thanks for providing your point of view.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the perspective of attendance changes from elementary to high school. It may sound basic, but it is true, the number one thing a student needs to do in order to succeed in school is being in school. When you mentioned individual basis, it made me think of students from economically disadvantage kids that spend hours by themselves at home because parents work, take care of younger siblings, answer phone calls, respond to doorbell, translate for parents during shopping, assist parents with payments online, etc. These kids tend no to take orders well sonce majority of the time they are leaders and problemm solvers. Once they get to school, "they are told what to do", and that is not in their norms; therefore, they come in shut down mode. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteGreat point, I would have to look at other factors too.
DeleteGreat point, I will have to look at other factors as well.
ReplyDelete