Revised Action Research Plan

Unfortunately, I had to revise my action research plan once again. Due to a change in curriculum, I will not be able to share my results with the faculty in August as I wanted to. This day has now been changed to a C-Scope training day. I will now share the results of my action research with the teachers during an Inservice day in the late Fall 2011 semester or early Spring 2012 semester. I have done the revisions in Red.

Jeffrey Luna’s Action Research Plan
Goal: My goal, in conducting this Action Research Plan, is to develop a plan in which the effective classroom teachers can influence and interact with all other teachers to mold them in a positive manner. Ultimately, I would like all teachers at Floresville High School to be effective in their respective classroom.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources
Analyze individual teacher data in regards to student pass/fail rate for the 1st Nine Week grading cycle, the 1st checkpoint assessment, and TAKS scores from last year’s reports. I also reviewed the TAKS scores after the April 2011 testing block to determine if the teachers were still falling into the same category.	I will be doing the analysis with help from another graduate student Jason Pfluger	The analysis of teacher data will begin next Monday December 6, 2010 and will culminate on Friday December 17, 2010. I also reviewed the TAKS results from the April 2011 administration in May 2011.	PEIMS clerk will provide individual teacher grade reports from the 1st Nine Week grading cycle. Testing Coordinator will provide the individual teacher reports for the 1st checkpoint assessment.
Conduct a survey with a random population of Juniors and Seniors consisting of 50 girls and 50 boys from each of the classes.	The teachers in the boomerang classes of the randomly selected students will hand out and collect the survey.	The survey will be done on Thursday January 13, 2011.	The resource needed will be the survey that I develop for the random students.
Interview the Instructional Facilitators of each department to get input as to who they believe are effective teachers in their respective departments.	I will be conducting the interviews of the Instructional Facilitators by myself.	The interviews will begin on Thursday January 20, 2011 and end on Tuesday January 25, 2011	I will be using the Instructional Facilitators as the resource and will conduct the interviews in the front office meeting room.
Observations will be done on the effective teachers that are recommended by the Instructional Facilitators.	I will be doing the observations along with Jason Pfluger another graduate student.	The classroom observations will begin on Monday January 31, 2011 and will end on February 28, 2011.	I will be conducting the observations in the teacher classrooms and will take notes on procedures, policies, strategies, teaching styles, and classroom discipline management.
Interviews will be conducted with the effective teachers.	I will be doing the interviews along with Jason Pfluger another graduate student.	The interviews will begin on Monday March 7, 2011 and end on Wednesday March 23, 2011.	The resources needed will be a note pad to take notes along with the notes I took when interviewing the Instructional Facilitator to review.
I will video record the effective teachers in the classroom setting.	Jason Pfluger and I will be doing the video recording of the teachers.	This process of video recordings will begin on Monday April 4, 2011 and will conclude on the week of April 15, 2011.	The resources needed to complete this action will be a video recorder (borrowed from the athletic dept.)
Effective teachers will talk about their styles, techniques, and classroom discipline management to all teachers during a professional development day. Their classroom videos will be shown at this time as well.	I will show the videos and introduce the teachers who will share their teaching strategies. The effective teachers chosen will present their classroom strategies.	This action plan step will now take place during a Teacher Workday in the late 2011 Fall semester or early 2012 Spring Semester. This is happening because the August 2011 date will now be used for C-scope training.	I will need a computer and a promethean board to show the videos and so that the teachers may use the promethean board to demonstrate classroom techniques.