Action Planning Template
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Goal: To close the academic gap in the content area of Reading with at risk students.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Data Analysis/Breakdown, disaggregation of data showing strengths and weaknesses, identifying if weaknesses are from readiness standards or supporting standards.
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Teacher, Site Supervisor, PLC team, grade level team
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September 2012 – June 2014
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4th grade STAAR results, beginning of the yr. assessments (taken 9/3 through 9/7), six weeks common assessments, ACP (done once a semester), 5th grade ITBS scores (taken in spring), 5th grade STAAR results (spring)
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Anecdotal records from tutoring, finding results of assessments, recording classwork scores, recording in class participation; “What can I do as a teacher to encourage classroom participation that may positively affect data? How will higher classwork scores influence assessment and tutoring scores?” Are the at risk students weak in processing?” To develop a program to address areas of concern.
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Building relationships with at-risk students and parents, strengthening and enhancing communication using strategies from book study; Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen
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Teacher, student, parents, site supervisor (for support and to answer any wonderings/questions)
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September 2012 – June 2014
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Interest inventory for students, get to know you activities, board games aligned with the state objectives and standards, Face-to-face conferences with parents; along with phone calls, emails, texts?, home visits, looking at relevant educational literature that relates to students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds. Internet searches for other ways to promote parental communication with at risk students.
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Tracking student attendance, tracking parental involvement – “Has it increased or decreased since the start of tutoring? What parents are not involved and find out their reasoning behind the lack of involvement?”
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Small group tutoring which includes; multiple response strategies, vocabulary strategies, differentiated instruction, progress monitoring
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Teacher, students, (site supervisor)
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September 2012 – June 2014
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Break down of tutoring groups due to STAAR objectives, make sure all students are engaged, weekly fluency practice, use of games, ELA/R manipulatives, think pair/share, use of white boards to illustrate and brainstorm, computer generated literacy games.
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Tracking what strategies have been successful and what strategies need to be adjusted in some way – “What strategies have been successful and what strategies need to be re-vamped? Why are some of the strategies not working? Have classroom grades improved due to the before school tutoring sessions? “
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Celebrating successes and an academic gains
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Teacher, students, (site supervisor)
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September 2012 – June 2014
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Every week, celebrate academic successes and gains with snacks, prizes, lunch with the principal or teacher, extra recess time, extra library time, a positive note to parents… to motivate at risk students to keep excelling and improving. Find a specific area that they have had a growth in.
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Have students fill out a survey that answers; “What have you liked about tutoring? What have you enjoyed about the celebrations? What changes would you make to improve the celebrations?”
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
My Action Research Plan~
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Hello Heather! What an interesting and challenging action research project! I agree with you that the at-risk students need extra effort and attention and someone to focus on them. Many times, that is just what they need.
ReplyDeleteI am following your blog off of the chat transcript from this week's video conference that Dr. Abshire posted. I have a new laptop but am not sure how to work it so I join in "real-time".
Good luck to you, and I will follow your project with great interest.
Tamara
http://tamarawactionresearch.blogspot.com/
Heather,
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting how we always begin with "disaggregating the data"? Reading improvement for our kids is so important. I hope you have much success with your project. Just curious, why does the timeline go through to June 2014? Thanks!
It was supposed to say June 2013 - through this school year! OOPS! Thank you for asking!
DeleteThe area of reading is very challenging especially for at-risk students. The extra effort you will provide through your research will be very interesting to read. Celebrating the success of the students is a great way to encourage the students. I look forward to following your blog and your research progress. Good luck!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that building positive relations with the parents is part of the plan. That make a BIG difference, when parents are on your side or see that you want what is best for their child they often will assist you. I also like that fun tutorials seems to be a part of the plan. We have to find fun ways to get the kids interested so that they will give it a shot. I am interested to find out what approaches are the most successful for the kids. I wonder if students or parents might give you good input at the end about what worked in this approach for them or their kids. Or I wonder if during the celebrations parents could come up and do a focus group with you to give you input on if they saw a difference in this years approach.
ReplyDeleteHeather, I can see that our plans are somewhat comparable. One thing that I would like to "steal" from your plan is to celebrate the success, which leaves me with a question; how much gain should the child have in order to be rewarded? I am truly interested in your plan.
ReplyDeleteReading is so very important and I am glad that you are planning such fun and rewarding activities for the students. Finding ways to ensure student success and produce achievement can be challenging. The key is to create that spark that makes them want to do the activity and develop intrinsic motivation.
ReplyDeleteI love to read and want to share that joy and adventure with all my students. Our favorite times are when I read aloud to them and we can share our books. I know that I have picked a great book to share when they check it out to read again or look for another one by the same author. Best of luck to you.
LV