Dana, N.F. (2009). Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Leaders using Blogs?
"Consonant with the move to change traditional professional development practices is the practioner inquiry movement" (Dana, 2009). With the move of administrators conducting staff development with action research, they must also use a tool that is easily accessible for their teachers view progress and findings. Blogs allow administrators to post their research topics, pose questions for teachers to inquire on, and allows teachers to comment. Blogs are a great tool to connect your staff and share information. Blogs also have the capability to 'archive' past studies that allow teachers to always have access to the information they are wanting and not having to rummage thru reams of paper. They are organized and easy for the reader to navigate in order to arrive at the information are looking for. Education leaders can use blogs not only to communicate their action research, but to connect their staff to one another and allows easy access for teachers to follow each other's work.
Dana, N.F. (2009). Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Dana, N.F. (2009). Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
In the beginning.... there was traditional research...
And then came ACTION research.
My blog is titled "Amy's Awesome Adventures with Action Research", because it is just that. An adventure. Before I started this class, I had only heard of action research, but really didn't understand what it was and what it involved. So, my fellow students, I am now starting this awesome adventure of learning and applying action research.
When I first heard the word 'research', I cringed. I just assumed that this was another traditional research project that entailed looking up different studies, and regurgitating the results. I was surprised to learn that action research was far from this. Action research is posing a question about an issue (that is of interest to ME), collecting and analyzing the data pertaining to that question, and implementing changes. Action research involves self-learning. During action research, the practitioner is researching their own problems and issues, practicing self-learning, and applying ‘real world’ application of results.
Action research allows principals and teachers to identify issues that are relevant to their campus, and focus on implementing changes based on data collected within THEIR campus. All data collected is current, happening NOW, and pertaining to the district's demographics. It (action research) allows principals to guide staff development and help teachers become self-learners. Principals can encourage grade levels to implement their own topics for action research that would help benefit THEM. Action research is also beneficial to the Campus Improvement Team in allowing goals to be written based on action research results.
My blog is titled "Amy's Awesome Adventures with Action Research", because it is just that. An adventure. Before I started this class, I had only heard of action research, but really didn't understand what it was and what it involved. So, my fellow students, I am now starting this awesome adventure of learning and applying action research.
When I first heard the word 'research', I cringed. I just assumed that this was another traditional research project that entailed looking up different studies, and regurgitating the results. I was surprised to learn that action research was far from this. Action research is posing a question about an issue (that is of interest to ME), collecting and analyzing the data pertaining to that question, and implementing changes. Action research involves self-learning. During action research, the practitioner is researching their own problems and issues, practicing self-learning, and applying ‘real world’ application of results.
Action research allows principals and teachers to identify issues that are relevant to their campus, and focus on implementing changes based on data collected within THEIR campus. All data collected is current, happening NOW, and pertaining to the district's demographics. It (action research) allows principals to guide staff development and help teachers become self-learners. Principals can encourage grade levels to implement their own topics for action research that would help benefit THEM. Action research is also beneficial to the Campus Improvement Team in allowing goals to be written based on action research results.
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