This week's reading was about the nine passions of action reseach. These passions(or wonderings) include staff development, curriculum development, individual teachers, individual student, school culture/community, leadership, management, school performance, and social justice. The passion that I find all of my ideas for action research come from student interest. I am truly not surprised by this finding since I feel that if we really know our students and we put their needs first we will succeed as leaders. Action research is the vehicle to help us to ensure that our goal is being met.
This was an interesting week as I really begin to think about where my action research would lead me. I believe I have settled on How do regular education students perform in a co-teach classroom? This is a topic that is of special interest to me as I am the regular education teacher in a co-teach classroom. I see first hand how kids are effected by this and I am anxious to collect the data.
I think this is a fascinating topic for research! I am a parent of a regular ed child who is currently in a co-teach classroom. I will admit that I have had concerns as to whether her classroom teacher could meet the varied needs of all children in her classroom. With students who need so much extra attention in order to succeed, do children who don't require as much attention get overlooked? So far, I will say that I have been very pleased with how the school year is going. My daughter loves her teacher and seems to be thriving. I am very interested to see what your research reveals. Good Luck!
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