Reflection

I have really learned a lot from this course, starting from learning what the difference was between action research and traditional research. There are so many benefits in learning this process and learning how to do it well. I really liked how the research is not just one person doing all the work, it is ideally a group of people working together with steps and a goal interacting, reflecting and coming up with a solution along the way using data.
When I was trying to decide on a topic, just having to look at all the issues in a school was beneficial and being able to talk to my site supervisor about ranking them by importance. I feel that too many times we brush things under the carpet, so to speak, instead of handling them.
It starting to create my plan, I learned that your question or topic sentence needs to be very focused and then you must have an action plan. In this action plan there needs to be steps, timelines, resources needed, people responsible, and assessment tools.
I also learned a lot about the resources that are used and how important it is to gather different types of resources that are all focused on you one topic. The resources need to contain data.
After my plan was developed and I was feeling pretty good about things, then we had to look at what challenges we may face. This was good to look at these things before you start the process instead of having to face them as a surprise and unprepared.
The last thing that I learned, that was the most challenging was the blogging . I have blogged before, but being able to connect to other blogs and locating blogs that relate to yours and commenting was a little overwhelming. I hope to learn more about this and become more comfortable.
Overall, I have really enjoyed this class and I am looking forward to moving on in my action research and finding results of my plan.

Resources

I am really getting excited about my research. I have started to locate materials and resources about intervention. If you anyone has any suggestions or know of any schools that already have a great intervention program in place, please let me know.
Thanks