Revised Action Research Plan

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Goal: The purpose of this action research study will be to examine the effects of peer coaching on teacher and student success in the classroom.

Goal/outcomes:
1.How does peer coaching impact instructional practices with teachers?
2.How does peer coaching effect student learning?
3.What components of peer coaching are the most beneficial?
4.What components of peer coaching are the least beneficial?

Activities:
These will include Student questionnaires, teacher journals, peer coaches journals and their observations.
Staff development for peer coach and teachers.
*Student interviews to their input on the impact on peer coaching.
*Create focus groups to provide multiple perspectives on the data collected.
*Active Listening to the teacher participants.

Research/Resources needed:
Student questionnaire
Peer coach journals
Literature review



Timeline:

July-Get permission to contact the study
August- Request teaching participants in person. Then seek more participation via email as needed.
August (mid)-Identify participating teachers
September- Sent letter home to student’s parents for permission to use their academic scores
October-Study will begin
November/December- Teachers and coach will attend staff development
January- Continue peer coaching
February-Teachers will journal their lessons and conferences with peer coach. Provide staff development for the staff to be presented by the teacher participants and me.
Oct-March Collect grades, test, and projects for each six weeks
April- Conduct a student questionnaire.May- Examine the results of the research.



Persons Responsible:

Facilitator-Renee Sanders
3 Classroom Teachers (To Be Determined)

Students (approximately 60)



Process for monitoring achievement:

For question 1: Grades will be compiled at the end of each six weeks. A percentage will be calculated and compared. Each semester grades will be compared.
For question 2: Data will be taken from teacher journals and peer coaches journals. Information will be compared from each semester.
For question 3: Data from teacher journals and observations and student questionnaires. After analyzing data, the trends will be determined.
For question 4: Data from teacher journals and observations and student questionnaires. After analyzing data, the trends will be determined.
*Asking questions:
What biases do I have?
What value is this research?

How is this research going to improve my teaching?



Evaluation:


Findings/Conclusions:
Questionnaires, journals, implementation of specific instructional strategies, peer coaches observations and journals.
Next steps:
Compare student grades from semesters.
Conference with students about their learning.
Meet with peer coach and determine effective teaching strategies.
Determine which strategies should be included in the classroom.
*Document analysis technique (practice is needed in this technique)
*Explore the patterns in the data.
*Determine the direction the data leads me, priorities of the data, where more information is needed and recognize the limitations.
*Use the direction data to improvement campus’ needs.
*Form Action Committees to begin action planning based on the action plan research.
*Create action plan from the research data.
*Implement the plan.