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Action Planning Template
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Goal:
Determine the factors that contribute to the low reading levels of
the current first grade students? What
can teachers do to help improve the low reading levels?
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Step
1: Gather the EOY
reading kindergarten levels for all of the students that are now in the first
grade and determine the percentage of students that entered first grade below
reading level.
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Laura Littleton-first
grade teacher
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Start: April 1st. 2013
End:
April 3rd,
2013
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EOY DRA levels for all
of the first grade students, excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step
2: Gather all of
the first grade BOY reading levels for all of the first grade students and
determine which students scored below reading levels at the beginning of the
year.
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Laura Littleton-first
grade teacher
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Start: April 3rd. 2013
End:
April 5th,
2013
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BOY DRA levels for all
of the first grade students, excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step
3: Gather all of the first grade MOY (middle
of the year) reading levels for all of the first grade students and determine
the percentage of students that scored below reading level.
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Laura Littleton-First
grade teacher
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Start: April 8th, 2013
End:
April 12th,
2013
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MOY DRA levels for all
of the first grade students, excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step 4: Gather all of
the EOY (end of the year) first grade reading levels for all of the first
grade students and determine the percentage of students that scored below
reading level.
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Laura Littleton- First
grade teacher
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Start: June 3rd, 2013
End:
June 5th,
2013
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EOY DRA levels for all
of the first grade students, excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step
5: Create an excel
spread sheet and determine who the kindergarten teacher was for all of the
current first grade students and determine the percentages of low reading
levels for each kindergarten class.
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Laura Littleton- First
grade teacher/ Secretary
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Start: March 20th, 2013
End: March
20th, 2013
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A list of all of the
current first grade students kindergartens teachers from the secretary.
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Analyze the data
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Step
6: Look at the
discipline referrals for the first graders and determine the percentage of
students that have discipline referrals that have low reading levels for the
beginning, middle, and end of the year.
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Assistant Principal
and Laura Littleton- First grade teacher
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Start: March 27th, 2013
End:
March 27th,
2013
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Review all of the
first grade discipline referrals for the school year of 2012-2013 from the
assistant principal. Excel spreadsheet.
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Analyze the data
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Step
7: Look at all of
the first graders birthdates and determine the percentage of students that
have a late birthday that contribute to the low reading levels in first grade
at the beginning, middle, and end of the year.
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Laura Littleton- First
grade teacher and the secretary
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Start: April 17th, 2013
End:
April 19th,
2013
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Birthdates of all
first grade students from the secretary, and an excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step
8: Determine the
percentage of students that are ESL that contribute to the low reading levels
in first grade at the beginning, middle, and end of the year.
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Laura Littleton- First
grade teacher and the ESL teacher
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Start: April 17th, 2013
End:
April 19th,
2013
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The number of ESL
students there are in the first grade and which ones are below grade level,
ESL teacher, excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step
9: Determine the percentages of low reading levels for
different ethnic groups at the beginning, middle, and end of the year.
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Laura Littleton- First
grade teacher and the secretary
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Start: April 24th, 2013
End:
April 26th,
2013
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Different ethnicities
for the first grade students from the secretary and an excel spreadsheet.
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Analyze the data
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Step
10: Gather data
from the Pearson’s Waterford program to see if the students who are using
Waterford throughout the year as an intervention are improving with their
reading.
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Principal and Laura
Littleton- First grade teacher
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Start: April 24th, 2013
End:
April 26th,
2013
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Waterford data from
Pearson, principal, and an excel spreadsheet
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Analyze the data
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Step
11: Determine which students received interventions in
kindergarten and the percentages of those students that still receive interventions
in first grade at the end of the year.
Determine which interventions are successful and which ones are not.
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Laura Littleton- first
grade teacher and the counselor
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Start: April 24th, 2013
End:
April 26th,
2013
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The students that
received interventions when they were in kindergarten as well as the students
who receive interventions in first grade, the counselor, and an excel
spreadsheet.
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Analyze the data
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Step
12: Interview key
Stakeholders (First grade teachers) to discuss their possible solutions to
the low reading levels in the first grade
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First Grade teachers
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Start:
March 18th,
2012
End: March
20th, 2013
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Interview questions
made by me and an excel spreadsheet
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Interview Questions
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Step
13: Self-reflect on
the interventions that I am using in class and determine which ones commonly
seem to work and which ones do not.
Determine what interventions I should continue in my plan.
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Laura Littleton
(myself-first grade teacher)
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Start: March
18th, 2013
End:
May 2013
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Journal with
self-reflection questions
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Self-reflection
questions answered
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Step
14: Exploring
Programmatic Patterns- Begin to determine a reasonable solution and meet with
the site-supervisor to discuss this.
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First Grade Teachers
and the principal
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Start:
June, 2013
End:
June, 2013
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All of the data,
self-reflection questions, interview questions from the other teachers
effected, possible solutions
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Analyze the data
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Step
15: To determine
direction of my action research plan, I will analyze all of the data collected, interviews given,
self-reflections, meetings with site-supervisor and determine what teachers in kindergarten and first grade need to
do differently in order to help the issue of low reading levels.
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Laura Littleton- First
grade teacher, the principal, the first grade team (teachers)
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Start: June 2013
End:
July 2013
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All of the data that I
have collected and entered into an excel spreadsheet, the principal, the
first grade team, and the final report document
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All of the data that I
have collected over all of the different topics, the interviews that I have
done, my own self-reflections,
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Step
16: Implement the action research plan that is approved by
my site-supervisor and the first grade team.
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First grade teachers
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Start:
August 2013
End: October
2013
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Interview questions,
plan design
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Interview Questions
for all of the teachers to determine if the plan is working
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Step
17: Share my
results of my action research plan with the principals and all of the first
grade and kindergarten teachers.
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Principals. First
grade and kindergarten teachers
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Start:
November 2013
End:
November 2013
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Power Point
presentation/oral presentation
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Power Point
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Action Research Plan Blueprint
For my action research plan, I will be determining what factors contribute to low reading levels. After analyzing data, self-reflecting, and collaborating with the teachers who this action research project will be affecting, I will propose a solution to the problem and we will implement the solution at the beginning of the next school year. Below is the blueprint for my action research project as of March 16, 2013. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for me!
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Wow, you were very specific and detailed. I took note of some things that I need to add to mine. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteLaura, I honestly believe your action research plan is unique and beneficial. Your are using your own findings to solve a problem, that is great. The data from interviewing teachers is powerful too. It is a big task, but it is great that you are going to find your own solution because you are looking at your own factors. I will be one of your followers. I look forward to your findings, specially at the intervention or solution. Wish you the best on your action research.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rebecca! I just added quite a few more things to it after meeting with my site-supervisor. I think it will be a big challenge, but I know that it will be very beneficial to the teachers and the students in the long run.
ReplyDeleteGloria,
I agree. I think that interviewing and collaborating with teachers is very powerful as well. Since we are on a team, I can share my findings and we can all come up with a solution that we think will work best. I am ready to start collecting data!
Laura
Laura you have an outstanding plan in place and one that is beneficial to all school districts. One idea I had for you is to maybe look at any reading programs that are currently being used. For example my elementary principal told me they were exploring a new reading program for basically the same reason for your action research. Are your kindergarten kids on a different program from the 1st graders and so on or are they all on the same??? If it is the same program, is there a deficiency within in it that is preventing reading growth???
ReplyDeleteJust some thoughts for you. Good luck!!!