Action Research Project Title: Goal Setting
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Project Summary (at least 250 words): My action research project revolves
around students setting goals and providing continuous upkeep and reflections
on tests and homework in core classes. With the high numbers of failing
students and written discipline referrals at this campus in recent years, we
also hope to see a goal setting mentality bring these numbers down. The idea is
that students who may struggle from a lack of motivation or focus will enefit
from setting goals early in the year. The student who has a visual reminder and
constantly considers what is need to be a successful student will indeed be
more successful when goals are set. Working with my site supervisor, I have
decided that several teachers will be involved in the process. These teachers,
who will be instructing these students, will help these students along with a
binder that holds all the information needed to follow the goals that have been
set. Similar to a science student maintaining a classroom binder, the student
will have a separate three ring binder that lists the initial goals set along
with an update section created for each class tests, daily work, and a section
to write about things that went well and areas where the student may be
struggling. I have collaborated with these teachers and we are in the process
of creating the goal setting sheets, shoreing up the best timeline, choosing
which students would be the best candidates, and creating an evaluation and
analyzation system to best benefit from the data. We all agree that classroom success
could be obtained from students who may lack focus by simply keeping a goal
setting sheet. With any luck at all the failure rates may go down as well as
discipline referrals for the study group.
