Action Research Future Implementation

There were many things that can be considered highlights throughout the course.  We received a lot of information through our lectures, readings and through the set up of our research.  When we first began this course, when they mention research, I originally thought it would be a traditional research.  However, as we got more in depth, I started to understand the type of research that we would be doing.   It is more of hands on activity research.  It is similar to how I teach in the classroom, whenever I am in the classroom, I like for my students to have hands on material and activities.  Personally, it has shown me throughout the years that they understand more in depth what I am teaching them, instead of the old traditional teaching such as lectures, etc.  Through the activities that we are doing in our active research we get to learn more and be more involve in many things.  At the beginning I did not expect anything of what we are doing.  It has made me talk to people and asking them questions on my research.  I am simply trying to get as much information as possible and it has helped.  When my colleagues ask of how my classes are going,   I explain to them of what we are doing and they are really surprise.   Everything that we have done throughout this course has been very beneficial.  From the beginning with the lectures, the lectures gives us a head start of what we are doing and motivate us to complete the assignment for the week and the ongoing research.  The reading then gives us many ideas and examples that continue to guides us as we work through our material.  As for the assignments and activities, it keeps us to get more knowledge into expanding our active research project.  The discussion boards and blogs, having been the most beneficial ones of them all.  Simply because you get to read about different things that are happening throughout the different school system.  In ways you can relate to some of them and help them out by stating some of the things that one is experiencing in your school system.  That to me is the more helpful resource because it is information that is current and not old material that was written and studied by several people.  Through this course we first began with the samples of the different action research, that really help in planning or giving us an idea on how to get started.  We also read and talked about the benefits of conducting research.  Setting the blogs has opened a whole new world to me; I had very little information on what blogs where, now that I have created my own I can sure implemented in the future as an administrating leader.  The most important highlight to me was listening to the three interviews in which they gave us information on their experience and the advice as well.   I selected two that I wrote about; they were Principal Johnny Briseno and Director of Research, Planning and Development Timothy Chargois.  Although I did not write about the Superintendent Dr. Kirk Lewis, I saw the interview and gathered a lot of good information.  Throughout this course we read about many different types of research and the one that relates to mine is the Curriculum Development Observation.  Another useful information was the methods used in active research.  Such as Force Field Analysis, Delphi Method and the Nominal Group Technique.  The method that I like the most and that I will be implementing is the Delphi Method.  We also got to go more in detail with our research plan by using the Care Model and meeting with my three site supervisors and peer suggestions through the discussion boards and blogs.  Now, that I am in this program, when I attend many of the meetings, I often think of things that are being discussed and think that would be a good action research project to do.  I think about the blogs or discussions of what some of the other classmates are doing.  Lastly, the last thing that we did was the quality indicators, which guides us in going more in depth and double checking our progress in the active research.    I close this reflection by the most important thing that I learned in this course.  The principal need no longer be the “headmaster” or “instructional leader,’ pretending to know all.  That is that the more crucial role of the principal is as head learner, engaging in the most important enterprise of the schoolhouse-experiencing, displaying, modeling, and celebrating what is hoped and expected that teachers and pupils will do.