This week focused on fine tuning and finding strategies for sustaining improvement through action research. I was able to work this week on my action research plan by meeting with my site mentor and going through steps to ensure that my plan is sufficiently designed. My mentor and one commenter had noticed that the action research proposal mentioned a reference to doing a survey to determine campus perceptions on technology use. This was incorrectly written by me as my action research plan is intended to measure current technology levels and to increase integration over time.
As mentioned previously, I learned about various academic strategies for sustained improvement in the course textbook, Examining what we do to improve our schools. The authors discuss systematic ways to foresee and confront challenges to action plans. This helped me to think strategically about problems that will arise during the implementation of my action plan.
I appreciated all of the comments I found on the discussion boards this week. In particular, Shendolyn Anderson gave me feedback on a number of ways to model and teach technology integration as part of future staff development activities I will be incorporating with the implementation of my action research plan. Shendlolyn mentioned various methods of using technology to facilitate teacher learning such as videotaping my own classroom with technology integration. These are useful suggestions which should help me be more successful in my implementation.
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