GOAL: To increase effective daily lesson planning that includes a balance between teacher-directed and differentiated activities. To increase the number of teachers utilizing differentiated instruction in their daily activities.
ACTION/STEPS | PERSONS RESPONSIBLE | TIMELINE (START/END) | Resources Needed | Evaluation |
Guiding Question: Describe how and why your problem was selected? Why was this problem important to you? 1. Establish survey methods. 2.Review and discuss differentiated instruction rubric 3.Coordinate with teams leaders the meeting times/dates/locations 4. Review and discuss Action Research progress 5.Organize the observation dates | Team Leaders, Department Chairs, Director of Instruction. | August/September | Differentiated Instruction Surveys; Laptops for computation of results | Differentiated Instruction Rubric and Guidelines |
Guiding Question: What baseline data on student performance was collected and what did you find? 1. Review survey methods. 2.Share Data Collection and Analysis 3.Share Data Collection Plan 4. Discuss observation finding. entries/ reflection | Team Leaders, Department Chairs, Director of Instruction | October | Differentiated Instruction Surveys; Laptops for computation of results | Differentiated Instruction Rubric and Guidelines |
Guiding Question: Based on the data that you are collecting, what changes in your teaching practice and in the learning environment do you see yourself making? 1.Review Survey methods 2. Update on team planning progress with differentiated activities. 3. Looking at Student Work based on differentiated assessments. 4.Share reflections | Team Leaders, Department Chairs, Director of Instruction | November | Differentiated Instruction Surveys; Laptops for computation of results | Differentiated Instruction Rubric and Guidelines |
Guiding Question: What actions have you taken or changes have you made in your teaching practices and in the learning environment as a result of your ongoing discoveries? 1.Review and discuss Differentiated Instruction rubric 2.Update on surveys from all participants 3. Share reflections | Team Leaders, Department Chairs, and Director of Instruction | January | Differentiated Instruction Surveys; Laptops for computation of results | Differentiated Instruction Rubric and Guidelines |
Guiding Question: What Impact could the Action Research study have on the your teaching in the future? 1. Update on findings from all participants 2. Receive final reflections and surveys from each team 3. Share Journal entries/ reflection | Team Leaders, Department Chairs, Director of Instruction | May | Differentiated Instruction Surveys; Laptops for computation of results | Differentiated Instruction Rubric and Guidelines |
Final Study Completed | | June | Differentiated Instruction Surveys; Laptops for computation of results | Differentiated Instruction Rubric and Guidelines |