After my conference
with my site supervisor over which topic to use for my action research project, I had a change of heart. I originally emailed her the 3 different topics so she
could look ahead and determine key points for each research or add some topics
that we could discuss. Our school is
currently taking on a huge project called the curriculum project. This is helping our campus get aligned
instructionally, so she wanted me to do my action research on one of the
components within this project. She
decided that the explicit vocabulary instruction research was not as practical
for our campus, but the other two were great choices. She wanted me to make the final decision
because she believed it should be the topic I am most interested in. I am going with the topic on the use of
effective warm- ups. This is part of our
school project and teachers on our campus are slowly starting to implement
them, but we still have some that are skeptical about making the change to
their lesson plans and adding warm-ups.
Together, my principal and I agreed that this would be a perfect
research project that will benefit myself, our teachers, and our students.
I look forward to following your research. Warm-ups can be such a useful tool if used correctly. Sometimes we get so caught up in checking things of our agenda that we do not stop and talk about the concepts in the warm-up. I am in great need of better warmups!
ReplyDeleteLove Warmups-I call them Journal Entries..I use them everyday but could always use new and effective information.
ReplyDeleteI am doing the use of effective vocabulary strategies because my campus needs help implementing vocabulary and saw that you were thinking about doing vocabulary hopefully I can be some help to you as well.
Absolutely, I did effective vocabulary instruction for a case study during my master reading program, so figured I would change it up and look into another issue even though it is still an area that needs improvement at my campus.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to following your research and seeing what you learn. I use to use warm-ups more effectively then I do now. I do however believe you are going to find they are so beneficial, especially in just getting the students going in the morning. Good luck!
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