Week 2 Reflection

This week's lessons and activities gave me a good opportunity to brainstorm about possible action research projects to focus on during this class. To me, the most useful activity was reading about the 9 passions that can drive action research, and completing the assignment identifying action research questions correlated to the passion, and explaining why the passion is an important area to action research.

While reading about the passions and discovering what others had done to address questions of a specific passion, I began to brainstorm possible ideas to bring to my principal for our conference about action research projects. I looked at the many activities that I have done or plan to do for my internship, and was able to put each internship activity into category by passion. I was surprised that I had at least two activities to fit in each passion, while some activities overlapped. I used this information to then conference with my principal.

Based on the needs of the school, we decided on an action research project that falls into the passion of curriculum development. A curriculum needs to be introduced for a new advisory period model that is being used in the school. The main question is, How can the advisory period best be utilized to realize campus goals. I will use action research to answer the many questions associated with the advisory period curriculum, and will be able to see if the curriculum is successful in helping to meet campus goals.

I am excited to continue in the coming weeks researching this question and refining my method of action research.