Graduate Credit Requirements
(+1 Credit)
Action Project
Complete all requirements for the 2-credit grad course.
Implement action plan: Using your timeline, begin implementing your plan. Use your data collection tools to obtain your initial round of data before your advisor phone call.
Participate in a phone or email conference with your advisorduring the week ofSeptember 23, 2013.Your advisor will contact you via email to schedule this conference.Questions for the phone/emailconferencewill include:
- What have you done so far with your action plan?
- What data have you gathered so far?
- What’s the next step in your plan?
- Do you have any questions?
Complete Final Report: Completely answer all ten questions on page three of this document. You must collect data and write the final report independently, even if you design the plan with a teammate. Use 12 point Times New Roman font for report.
Final Report due on:November 15, 2013. E-mail your final Action Project report and Action Project cover sheet to nd cc your advisor with “Action Project: Your Name” as the subject. For example: “Action Project: John Smith.”
Advisors:
Roxanne HableScott Tyink
612-822-3422612-964-6255
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+ 1 Action Project Coversheet
Attach this coversheet to your Final Report for the +1 Credit Action Project
Name:Workshop: / RC1 RC2 RC3 DD1 DD2 Literacy Coaching
Institute Site: / Start Date / Facilitator
Accrediting School: / Hamline St. Mary’s Other ______
Your School:
School Address:
City/State/Zip:
Grade Level/Position:
School E-mail:
Home E-mail:
Home Address:
City/State/Zip:
Telephone: / Work / Other
Questions for Final Report for the +1 Credit Action Project
- Goal: What is/was your goal? Did your goal change or evolve throughout this process?
- What student indicators did you look for to determine if you met your goal?
- What Responsive Classroom or Developmental Designs practices did you use
to achieve your goal?
- How did you implement the practices? What sequence of steps did you take to put the practices into use? Please note when different steps were taken (e.g. began implementation in September; surveyed students in early October; revised practice in mid-October, etc.). Please providespecific details about how you introduced the practices, including student responses.
- What problems did you encounter as you used these practices? What adjustments did you make to remedy the issues? Why do you think these problems arose? Please provide specific details. For example, descriptions of conversations and interaction with students.
- Data: What three data collection tools from your original action plan did you use and why? What quantitative data did you gather? Includea copy of a blank survey, questions asked, and other instruments used for data collection.Comment on any changes you have noticed between when you collected your baseline and your final assessments.
- Results: Describe and summarize the data you collected. Include tables, graphs, segments of interviews, or written surveys in this section. What advances did students make as a result of the changes you made? Is there evidence of positivechange in student behavior, skills, or knowledge? To what extent? To what do you attribute your results? How do you relate the practices implemented and your results?
- How did this Action Project affect your practice of the Responsive Classroom/Developmental Designsapproach and/or general practice?What will you do differently in the future?
What will you do next?
- What do you want to know more about? What steps can you take to find out?
- Reflect on the action plan process, including: coming up with your idea, planning, communicating with an advisor, doing plans like this in the future, your concept of yourself as a professional educator, etc.