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Action As Two Different Things

This document provides guidance for students to participate in and assist with action research being conducted by their mentor teachers. It instructs students to make a list of 5 completed action research titles and studies conducted by other teachers. It then asks students to notice and interpret themes from the titles and to analyze what problems the studies aimed to address. Finally, it prompts students to reflect on concepts they've learned about action research and consider how they may assist their mentor or conduct their own future study.

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Action As Two Different Things

This document provides guidance for students to participate in and assist with action research being conducted by their mentor teachers. It instructs students to make a list of 5 completed action research titles and studies conducted by other teachers. It then asks students to notice and interpret themes from the titles and to analyze what problems the studies aimed to address. Finally, it prompts students to reflect on concepts they've learned about action research and consider how they may assist their mentor or conduct their own future study.

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FS 2 ACTIVITY 2.

Participate and Assist

You must have experienced in your past subjects, doing some activities or accomplishing tasks
similar to an action research. These are activities that required you to do a Reflection and Make
Action or the other way around. Schon (1987) distinguishes 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 capable of doing.

Here is what you will do.

Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles by Teachers in the Field.

1. Make a library or on-line research of the different Completed Action Research Titles
Conducted by Teachers.
2. Enter the list in the matrix similar to the one below.
3. Submit your list of five (5) Titles of Completed Action Research Studies to your mentor
as refence.

Inventory of Sample Action Research Conducted by Teachers


List of Completed Action Research Author/ Authors
Example: Differentiated Instruction in Teaching English
for Grade Four Classes Mary Joy Olicia
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Note: If you could ask a soft copy of the completed action research much better.
NOTICE

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. Identified problem to be solved
1. What have you noticed about the no. 1
action research titles? Do the
Action Research (AR) titles imply
problems to be solved? 2. Identified problem to be solved
Yes_______No__________ no. 2

If YES, identify the problems from the 3. Identified problem to be solved


title you have given. Answer in the space no. 3
provided.

4. Identified problem to be solved


no. 4

5. Identified problem to be solved


no. 5

2. What interpretation about action Title of the Action Research:


research can you make out of
your answer in Question No.1

3. Write the TITLE and your


From the title, I think the
interpretation of the study from
study______________________....
the title.
4. What do you think did the I think the author/s………
author/s do with the identified
problem as presented in their
titles?
ANALYZE

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
problem in school, hence teachers should do action research. This is an exciting 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 what source do you think, did Choices:
the authors identify the problems of _____Copied form the research books
their action research _____From daily observation of their teaching practice
_____From difficulties they observed in their learners.
_____From their own personal experience.
_____From the told experiences of their co-teachers

2. What do you think is the teacher’s Choices:


intention in conducting the action _____To find a solution to the problematic situation
research? _____To comply with the requirements of the principal
_____To improve teaching practice
_____To try out something, if it works
_____To prove oneself as better than the others
3. What benefit do you get as a Choices
student in FS 2 in understanding and ____Prepare me for my future job
doing action research? ____Get good grades in the course
____Learn and practice being an action researcher
____Improve my teaching practice
____Exposure to the realities in the teaching profession
____Become a better teacher everyday
4. In what ways, can you assist your ____By co-researching with my mentor
mentor in his/her Action Research ____By assisting in the design of the intervention
Activity? ____By assisting in the implementation of the AR
____By just watching what is being done
REFLECT

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_____________________________________(5 lines)

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________________________________________( 5 lines)


Write Action Research Prompts

OBSERVE

From what teaching principles of theories can this problem be anchored?

 I have observed and noticed that Action Research begins with a problem or a
problematic situation.
Write an example of problematic situation that you have observed and noticed.
(5 lines)

REFLECT

What have I realized? What do I hope to achieve?

I realized that for every teaching-learning problem, there is a solution.

Write a probable solution to the problematic situation


above___________________________________________________________________
____________________________(5 lines)

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_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________(5 lines)

ACT
If I conduct or implement my plan, what can be its title?
 If will implement my doable plan in the future, my title would
be________________________________________________________________
________________________________

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