Action research can be used in a plethora of areas of concern in the education system. Administrators can use it to explore their options on how to better their campus as a whole, department coordinators can use it to improve their departments staff resources and collaboration, and teachers can perform action research to improve their curriculum instruction to increase each students success in the classroom. There are two main concerns I have on our campus that I would incorporate action research for. The first one is our campus climate and culture. Even though we are one of the top schools in the district I feel our student body and campus leaders need to have a better understanding of each others wants and goals. The second concern I have is geared toward my department which is business and that is gaining and maintaining enough students in the core classes we offer for several reasons.
In regards to y first concern, I would ask the administrators to allow our pep rally's be held in the court yard where all students gather before school to see if student body participation increased. I would also ask if we could create a pep rally bell schedule for those days instead of holding them at 8am when the majority if the students haven't even arrived to school yet and cannot make special arrangements to show up to school early just to attend.
When creating an action research plan for my second campus concern, I would like to ask my department teachers to create a 30 second to 1 minute exciting presentation to take to our feeder middle schools in order to show them the benefits our of courses.
At the end of the year I would analyze and reflect the numbers of participation for both of my action research plans to find any success or failures and where the research plan could improve
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