Monday, December 3, 2012

Week 3: Action Plan


 
Tool 7.1 Action Planning Template
 
Goal:
 
To increase student classroom attendance through the implementation of teacher involvement in tardy sweep
Action Steps
Person(s) Responsible
Timeline:
Start/End
Needed Resources
Evaluation
1. Determine areas of concern for student classroom attendance which could benefit from the implementation of our new tardy sweep method.
 
Attendance Office, Administrators, Teaching staff, Self
November 2012/ January 2013
School tardy sweep records for last year and this year, student surveys, and teacher surveys
Establish a checklist based on the “needed resources”.
2. Determine the reasons behind poor student classroom attendance.
o    Which day of the week has the most tardied students?
o    What period has the highest number of late students?
o    What reason(s) are behind student tardiness?
o    Resolutions for improving student attendance.
 
Attendance personnel, Administration, Committee members, Teaching staff, Self 
November 2012/ December 2012
Student surveys, Teacher surveys, Last year tardy sweep records, This year tardy sweep records
Establish a checklist based on the “needed resources”.
3. Establish a method for the program.
o    Determine which teachers would like to volunteer
o    Establish a way to keep track of the number of students that are brought back to class.
 
Principal, Assistant  Principals, Teaching Staff, Self
January 2013/ September2013
List of students brought back to class, List of teacher volunteers
Evaluate results by comparing tardy sweep numbers to determine if our new method is successful and find out what may need to change.
4.        Assign volunteer teachers to certain periods of the day and days of the week.
 
Principal, Assistant Principals, Teaching Staff, Self
 
January 2013/ September 2013
List of teacher volunteers, List of teacher assigned periods and days of the week
Analyze assignment outlines, make changes where needed.
5. Evaluate the success of our program through data records, teacher surveys, and student surveys.
 
Principals, Associate Principals, Attendance personnel, Teaching staff, Self
 
February 2013/ September 2013
Tardy sweep records, teacher questionnaires, student surveys
Evaluate data records and determine if improvement was achieved.
6.  Share results discovered through my research
Principal, Assistant Principals, Teaching Staff, Committee members, Self
January 2013/ October 2013
Analyzed data, Reflection journals and blogs
Analyze data and determine if success was achieved.

6 comments:

  1. Wow, can you set up my Action Plan? My wife is a High school teacher dreading tardy sweeps. I would love to be able to share your findings with her when you get them. Good Luck and Enjoy!

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  2. The thought of a teacher escorting me back to class would make me get to class on time. I know it would kill some of the kids at my campus. Your action plan looks great.

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  3. I think that attendance is a really good topic for you action research plan. It is an issue that affects most if not all school campuses. Your findings have the potential to help out a lot of campuses and frustrated teachers! Good Luck!

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  4. Excellent topic of research! It seems as if everything is set up in order to get the best data and make an informed decision about if its successful or not. My question is about the student survey planned in Step 5: What is the purpose of the Student Survey? Students already, on principle, will hate the "tardy sweep." Also, how will you decide which students receive the survey? Just wondering!

    Your plan look fantastic!!

    Please check out mine and comment: epawkettresearch.blogspot.com

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  5. Your plan looks great. I have a question on the implementation of the plan more than the set-up. How are you going about recruiting the "volunteer teachers" and encouraging them to participate in your study?

    Good luck!

    Robert Seibert
    robertseibert.blogspot.com

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  6. Great idea for action research plan...I am also implementing a hall sweep program due to soooo many tardies at our campus. I am calling it the "Tardy Monster"! I love the idea of sending the students to listen to classical music...I may incorporate that into my plan because I think it would devastate our kids...they only listen to rap and pop!! Lol. Great job!

    J. Vasquez
    Hookemjj6.blogspot.com

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