Revised Action Research Plan

My Action Research Plan

Christian Bridges Action Planning Template Week 3 Assignment
Goal:  Improving Discipline through Classroom Management
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Meet with Mr. Ammerman to discuss multiple topics for my Action Research Plan. We both agreed to do something that would benefit our school, teacher, and students.	Site Mentor: Matt Ammerman Action Researcher: Christian Bridges	October 2012	Meetings, discussions, notes, and Action Research Plan draft	Note taking/ Journaling on meetings Presentations of Action Research Plan to site mentor for any final revisions
Interview the Teachers and see where the problem lies with their classroom management techniques	Christian Bridges Teachers-Mr. Lehrnman and  Mrs. Kim Principle-Matt Ammerman Parents	October 2012- June 2013	Meetings with the Teachers, looking at it from the principles, student, and parents aspect	Taking Notes on all the meetings/interviews, share with my principle and see what he thinks for any final revisions
Hold training for teachers who need to know how to deal with classroom management and discipline. ADD: I will go into other teachers classroom that have had success with their classroom management and see what they do different, how they engage with the students and interact with them as well handling situations that come up.	Christian Bridges Principle-Matt Ammerman	October 2012-June 2013	Go into the classrooms and observe the class setting	While observing the classroom take notes on the teacher and students   ADD: What I took from the experience from evaluating other teachers that have mastered this, I would recommend for the teachers that are struggling with classroom management.  Hoping to get those teachers to mentor the struggling ones and seek them through this with a lot of support from our campus.
I will engage in self reflection by taking notes, paying attention to how the teachers and children vibe with one another. When an issue comes up see how the teachers react and the students respond.	Christian Bridges Principle – Matt Ammerman Teachers-Lehrnman and Mrs. Kim Students	October 2012-June 2013	Data sheets to see what type of behavior starts, during, and after. This is part of journaling writing and what is happening in the classroom.	Students will be evaluated by their actions, behavior, and the teachers will be evaluated by their demeanor when teacher and if they are in control of things in the classroom.
The teacher identified the areas of improvement in Maintaining classroom discipline.	Christian Bridges Principle – Matt Ammerman Teachers-Lehrnman and Mrs. Kim Students	October 2012-June 2013	Journal what is being said, taught, activities all need to be recording to see how and why the behavior occurs	How does the teacher react or respond to the students is it positive or negative reinforcement.
Create a Professional Development to help all teachers to have and maintain good classroom management skills	Christian Bridges Principle-Matt Ammerman	October 2012-June 2013	Handouts Presentations Speakers Journal Writing	Take what you learned from the Professional Development and go back and reinforce it in your classroom and that the management is now more manageable due to our changes.
Researching other school districts forms and policies on Classroom management.	Christian Bridges	October 2012-July 2013	Internet, school news, other school’s websites, google	Analyze data and record stats on a document, gather a summary of ideas on Classroom Management from other school districts, Create a documents of all the information found
Conduct a training night for parents that have discipline issues with their child and ways to help reinforcement at home that will carry over to school.	Christian Bridges Principle – Matt Parents Students	October 2012-July 2013	Computers, handouts, projectors Smart Boards	Registered people in with a sign in sheet, talk to them about discipline issues in the classroom and how to help work with their teachers and have a better communication between the parent and the school.