Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Week 4
We read about 3 new strategies to support and sustain action research. I am finding each week that reflecting on the best practices is a very common theme. I think the reflecting questions at the end of each strategy were great for guiding questions. Also, the more and more I look at my research plan the more questions I ask myself. For instance, this week I asked the tutoring teachers if they used any incentives during tutoring. 3 out of 9 teachers use incentives to motivate students during tutoring. So, will the use of incentives motivate students while they are in tutoring. This is just one more factor I will look at when I send a survey to the students after tutoring is completed. I liked the Force Field Analysis because it help you create a pro and con checklist and you create a strategy based on those pro's/con's. The Delphi method seemed like it allowed for open communication because most responses were confidential but it also seemed like a lot of sitting at the computer for long hours. I am learning more and more about action research. This class is great.
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I agree that the Delphi method can be very effective, but I think I prefer the Nominal Group Technique. This seems like basically the same idea as the Delphi Method, but instead of doing it at separate computers over a long period of time, you can do it in person in a lot shorter time frame. We did something similar to the Nominal Group Technique at a staff development session in the Fall, trying to come up with behaviors we wanted to see from students when addressed by an adult. In a period of about 15 or 20 minutes 75 people were able to create a concise and unified list of 5 behaviors we wanted to see from students when addressed by an adult. It was a great way for us to have unity and really unsderstand what we want to see from the student.
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