This document discusses doing action research as a student teacher. It instructs the student to make a list of 5 completed action research titles conducted by teachers. It then has the student answer questions about the titles, including identifying problems addressed in the research. The student interprets one study about the effects of background music on student productivity, motivation, and behavior. The document emphasizes that action research helps teachers improve practice by solving problems in the classroom. It benefits student teachers by preparing them for their future career and exposing them to teaching realities.
This document discusses doing action research as a student teacher. It instructs the student to make a list of 5 completed action research titles conducted by teachers. It then has the student answer questions about the titles, including identifying problems addressed in the research. The student interprets one study about the effects of background music on student productivity, motivation, and behavior. The document emphasizes that action research helps teachers improve practice by solving problems in the classroom. It benefits student teachers by preparing them for their future career and exposing them to teaching realities.
This document discusses doing action research as a student teacher. It instructs the student to make a list of 5 completed action research titles conducted by teachers. It then has the student answer questions about the titles, including identifying problems addressed in the research. The student interprets one study about the effects of background music on student productivity, motivation, and behavior. The document emphasizes that action research helps teachers improve practice by solving problems in the classroom. It benefits student teachers by preparing them for their future career and exposing them to teaching realities.
This document discusses doing action research as a student teacher. It instructs the student to make a list of 5 completed action research titles conducted by teachers. It then has the student answer questions about the titles, including identifying problems addressed in the research. The student interprets one study about the effects of background music on student productivity, motivation, and behavior. The document emphasizes that action research helps teachers improve practice by solving problems in the classroom. It benefits student teachers by preparing them for their future career and exposing them to teaching realities.
To have a meaningful an successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure to read
through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2 Resource Teacher’s class. Note all the information you will need and tasks you will need to do before working on this episode.
Doing Action Research: An overview
Every teacher is an action researcher. Everyone can do it. Teachers ans student can do it together.
This episode focuses on doing action research as one of the roles of the teachers. Every teacher should take interest to know how the students learn, wants to make innovations in the curriculum and desires to improve teaching practice. In order to achieve these, a teacher has to action research on the everyday practical problems. These problematic situations and observed discrepancies emerge between what is intended and what actually occurs in the classroom.
You must have experienced in your pat subjects, doing some activities or accomplishing tasks similar to an action research. There are activities that required you to do Reflection an Make Action or the other way around. Schon (1987) Reflection in Action or Reflection on Action as two different things. Perhaps Your mentor teacher has already done an Action Research. Now is the opportunity for you to participate and assist in ways that you are cable of doing. Here is what you will do. Making a List of Complicated Action Research Titles by Teachers in the Field 1. Make a library or on –line search of the different Completed Action Research Titles Conducted by Teachers. 2. Enter the list in the matrix similar to one below. 3. 3. Submit your list of (5) Titles of Completed Action Research Studies to your mentor as reference.
Inventory of Sample Action Research Conducted by Teachers
List of Completed Action Research Titles Author/Authors Ex. Differentiated Instruction in Teaching Mary Joy Olicia English for Grade four Classes 1. Effectiveness of using Games in Teaching Arda Arikan Grammar to Young Learners
2. Instructional Strategies for Teaching Pre- Robert Ojeda
4. The Effects of Background Music in the Kevin N. White
Classroom on Productivity, Motivation and Behavior of 4th Grade Students
5.Enhancing Classroom Practice and Mark R. Young
Fulfilling Educational Responsibilities Eve M. Rapp
Based on your activity on Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles, let’s find out what you have noticed by answering the following questions. Questions My Answer 1. What you have noticed about action 1. Identified problem to be solved in research titles? Do the action title no. 1 research (AR) titles imply problems This study aims to explore the beliefs and to be solved? Yes ✓ habits of Turkish EFL teachers’ towards No _______ using games in young learners
2. Identified problem to be solved in
title no. 2 If YES, identify the problems from How effective this instructional strategies the title you have given. Answer in for teaching pre-algebra to a diverse the space provided. group of learners
3. Identified problem to be solved in
title no. 3 How action research improves the practitioner’s own understanding of her/his educational practices to maintain discipline in class. 4. Identified problem to be solved in title no. 4 How background music in the classroom affected the productivity, motivation and behavior of the students
5. Identified problem to be solved in
title no. 5 Why it is importance to enhance classroom practice and fulfill educational responsibilities.
2. What interpretation about action Title of the Action Research:
research can you make out of your answer in Question No.1? The Effects of Background Music in the Classroom on Productivity, Motivation and Behavior of 4th Grade Students
3. Write the Title and your From the title. I think, the study focused on, interpretation of the study from the One of the specific strategies now commonly title. used to supplement and enhance student learning is the use of background music. Using music in the background of instruction or during independent work time has proven to have many benefits in the classroom in relation to productivity, behavior and motivation.
4. What do you think did the author/s I think the author/s did was a pre-test survey do with the identified problem as and a post-test survey that measure students’ presented in their titles? attitudes towards music were administered to the subjects. Teacher kept observation notes regarding the effects of the background music in the classroom. The other authors did was to gather and interpret data for this study included: information interview with individual students and small groups, and also questionnaire for the other teachers that used music in the classroom
Action research seems easy and familiar, since teaching seems to be full of problematic situations and that the teacher has a responsibility of finding solution for everyday problems in the school, hence teachers should do action research. This is an existing part of being a teacher, a problem solver! Let us continue to examine and analyze what you have noticed and interpreted in the previous activity. Key Questions My Answer Choose from the options given. You may check more than one answer 1. From the source do you Choices: think, did the authors __Copied from the research books identify the problems of ✓ From daily observation of their teaching practice. their action research? ✓ From difficulties they observed of their learner. ✓ From their own personal experience ✓ From the told experience of their co-teacher.
2. What do you think is the Choices:
teacher’s intention in ✓ To find a solution to the problematic situation. conducting the action __ To comply with the requirement of the principal research? ✓ To improve teaching practice __ To try out something, if it works __ To prove oneself as better than the other
3. What benefit do you get Choices:
as a student I FS 2 in ✓ Prepare me for my future job understanding and ding __ Get good grades in the course action research? __ Learn and practice being an action researcher ✓ Improve my teaching practice ✓Expose to the realities in the teaching profession ✓Become a better teacher everyday
4 In what ways, can you assist ✓ By co-researching with my mentor
your mentor in his/her Action ✓By assisting in the design of the intervention Research Activity? ✓ By assisting in the implementation of the AR __ By just watching what is being done
Based on the readings you made and the previous activities that you have done.
1. What significant ideas or concepts have you learned about action research? I learned that, action research is the process for improving educational practices and develops reflection practices based on the interpretations made by participants. Also it helps to understand what is happening in our classroom and identified changes that improve teaching and learning. 2. Have you realized that there is a need to be an action researcher as a future teacher? Yes ✓ No____. If yes, complete the sentence below.
I realized that there is a need to be an action researcher as a future a teacher
because there is a great need for teachers to impact their professional development which in the long run impacts on their proficiency. It ensures that a practical solution into whatever social situation is found. It is a significant tool in ensuring that the teacher understands his/her practice, ways of improving the same, enable him/her understands the ways in which the person is able to understand changes from outside and enable one to improve the practice through changing the outside.
OBSERVE
From what teaching principles of the theories can this problem be anchored? I have observed and noticed that Action Research begins with the problem or a problematic situation. Write an example of a problematic situation that you have observed and notices.
The problematic situation that I had observed and notice is that students that won’t pay attention during class session. I also observed the child that is regularly losing focus during challenging task. It is very annoying when you have students who can’t seem to listen like they can’t seem to follow directions or even pay attention to you .
REFLFECT
What have I realized? What do I hope to achieve?
I realized that every teaching learning problem, there is a solution. Write a probable solution to the problematic situation above The problematic situation that I had observed and notice is that students that won’t pay attention during class session. I also observed the child that is regularly losing focus during challenging task. It is very annoying when you have students who can’t seem to listen like they can’t seem to follow directions or even pay attention to you .
PLAN
What strategies, activities, innovations can I employ to improve the situation or
solve the problem? As a future action researcher I can plan for an appropriate intervention like providing some other tips or strategies how the students catch their attention like include physical activity, remove visual distractions, play memory games and adjust time frames.
ACT
If I conduct or implement my plan, what can be its title?
If will implement my doable plan in the future, title would be Increasing the Engagement of Students in Class Your artifact will be an Abstract of a completed action
Discipline – Improving Classroom Management through
Action Research: A Professional Development Plan Munir Moosa Sadruddin
Abstract
Action research is an effective plan for the professional development of teachers. It helps practitioners’ to improve their teaching skills. This research paper examines the strategies used by the researcher to maintain discipline in classroom through action research. The paper determines whether punishment and de-motivation are better reinforcing tool to maintain discipline and whether there is a relation between punishment and de-motivation with learners’ behavior. The teacher identified the areas of improvement in maintaining classroom discipline. For this particular research, Individual Action Research Plan was adopted. A professional plan was developed and implemented using Skinnerian model of discipline (1930-1955) to maintain discipline in classroom through positive reinforcement instead of punishment. The sampling consisted of 60 students (30 males and 30 females) of grade 9-10. The data was collected through personal observations, reflective diary and audio recordings. The study concludes that there is a definite relationship between punishment and de-motivation with learners’ behavior. The students were more relaxed when the positive reinforcement was adopted and when the routine plan was made keeping in mind the interest of the students. They were more engaged in class when the punishment and demotivation were avoided. Positive reinforcement, substituting punishment and implementing students’ opinion helped a lot in maintaining discipline and in improving learners’ behavior. The action research helped the researcher to maintain classroom management through effective discipline practice.
