Action Research

Student Intended Impact

• Building Independent Thinkers
• Foster Creative Ideas
• cultivate persistent attitudes

ideal state

• students will...
• know how to use tools to research questions
• take risk
• Growth mindset

current reality

• Mr. Smith...
• how do i spell _____?
• IDK how to do this!
• This is too hard!

attempted solutions

• Make refrences visible
• allow self reflection and collaboration time
• Genius hour

genius hour

• 20% of time
• student choice/lead
• technology based
• meets all ideal state objectives

Topics included

• Brain surgery
• robots
• gmo's
• healthy lifestyle
• perfect basketball shooting form
• best singing voice

Final Products

• youtube video
• flyers/terrarioum
• blog
• website
• powtoon
• haikudeck
• storybook

Throughout the Project

• started with an essential question
• researched
• created a solution to the problem
• chose a way to present
• researched
• final presentations

Data

• Students completed weekely reflections
• one on ones to guide mindset/research
• self assessment rubric

curiousity

• How motivated were you to ask questions and want answers?
• 13 out of 16=5/4=81%

possible mindset change

• 75% persistent rate
• "I would try, try, and try" until I found what I wanted."
• "I had to start over twice because I couldn't find anything for my topic."
• "I went back through my notes"

Overall learning impact

• I don't think I could have learned much more given the time that I Had.
• 15 out of 16=5/4

changes that OCCURRED in students

• when students hit a "dead end"
• "Give it a shot"
• "I wonder..."

Changes that OCCURRED in me

• i learned to not be afraid to take risks with the students
• self reflection is a powerful tool
• its okay to not be in control

Next steps

• how do i encourage students to become more interdependent?
• what are ways to assess impact vs. outcome?