Process... thus far.

This week’s meeting was cut short due to an emergency meeting called by the district due to the tragedy in Connecticut. However, the short time that we did meet we discussed the changes we could make and the implementations that will need to happen from here to make my research successful. Because I am choosing a topic that requires lots of observation times and with a teacher that is unaware of what it is that I am observing, we decided that I would do my observations throughout my off period twice a week for the remainder of the next semester. The next semester, I will change into another classroom in the same grade, particularly the teacher that has the highest test grades. Therefore, I may see a correlation between my observations and the data I will be collecting.

As I was discussing my plan with her, she thought that it was critical that I analyze students’ grades from the previous two years. We pondered the idea that a teacher could “ruin” a student in a single school year and if so, was it the attitude of the teacher, the teaching/learning styles or the way they present the information the students. I will definitely be interested in seeing if my findings are consistent across grade levels or changes based on age because of maturity or developmental changes.