Educational leaders (principals) can use blogs to explain what was
learned at a professional workshop, thoughts about what is going on at the school, and collect data to use in future plans. Blogging is an easy way for administrators
to communicate new ideas, provide weekly announcements to the staff, and to
journal thoughts about articles read.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Action Research
Action research
is a supported evidence centered process that solves problems and making
decisions. The research collected helps the person in charge create a timeline,
develop individual/instructional needs, understand school needs, involve the
community, and develop questions/surveys/data to help improve the school
environment. Action research is built around a particular problem within a
school. The information studied helps to
make changes to questions generated from the action research study. Involving
the teachers, teacher’s aids, parents, students, and other school staff helps
provide a greater vision of changes that need to be made to specific programs
within the school. Improving problems, formulating strategies to improve
problems, implementing action plans, and improving situations at school are
important to making an action research plan successful. Action research also involves existing data,
ethical understanding to the parents, and writing and implementing specific
action plans. The objective of an action research plan is to continue
improvement never-ended change.
A
successful action research must ask questions as to why the research needs to
change the current situation brought forth. Good research characteristics
should be meaningful, focused, challenging, and supportive. Schools have
different methods of making changes at school. Depending upon the school grade
level brings forth various situations that need attention; a principal needs to
put the situations in order from greatest to least and begin working on the
highest priority problem first.
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