Sunday, June 24, 2012

Action Research Plan


School Vision: Moorhead Junior High believes in its students; supports their achievements; and builds rapport between students, staff, and parents.



Goal: To motivate students to complete school work and homework. Starting with an extrinsic motivator and teaching the students the intrinsic motivators that they will need to be successful in life and become life long learners.



Outcomes
Action
Resources
Person
Time line
Benchmark
Evaluation



Students have no zeros participate in an activity of their choosing for completing weekly work
Survey of what students would like to participate in and also what teachers would like to lead
Allan Sapp-Principal and motivation committee
Aug-Sept


End of year questionnaire


Students with zeros participate in study hall
~Google docs spreadsheet with students who have zeros and what study hall class they are assigned to
~Google Docs of missing assignments for the different teachers
~Teachers that teach students recording in Google docs if they have zeros or not
~Teachers upload the assignment to Google Docs or their web-sites
Sept-May


End of year questionnaire


Students with no zeros all year go to end of year water park field trip
~Google Docs spreadsheet
Karen Brown and Dawn Smith
Sept-May


See if students that had no zeros all year would have qualified the regular way using their grades and attendance etc.


3 comments:

  1. I love the idea of no 0's. At my school we have a no 0 policy and the "offenders" are referred to the office to be conferenced and disciplined and their parents are called. Then the students who have less than three referrals per semester get to go on a field trip during the regular school day while the others are left at school to do assignments. I think your research plan is a good way to get the students motivated to turn in their assignments.

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  2. plan of action looks good. I would love to go the water park! I am intersted to see if the student's who would normally not be motivated become motivated because of the water park. I think something like this can work for some kids - I have fond memories of learning my multiplication facts in 3rd grade for the sole purpose of the off-campus pizza party! My teacher even drove us in her Linclon!

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  3. Karen,

    Great job with your action research plan. The topic of how best to motivate students is interesting, and topical. Keep working hard to achieve your research goals!

    Best,
    Dr. Abshire

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