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Your MA Professional Development Plan and Action Research

Ready! S.M.A.R.T.! Action!. Your MA Professional Development Plan and Action Research. MSLA 2014, Hyannis Connecting, Creating, Caring: The School Library As a Third Place :. Session Presenters:. MSLA 2014 Conference, Hyannis.

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Your MA Professional Development Plan and Action Research

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  1. Ready! S.M.A.R.T.! Action! Your MA Professional Development Plan and Action Research MSLA 2014, Hyannis Connecting, Creating, Caring: The School Library As a Third Place:

  2. Session Presenters: MSLA 2014 Conference, Hyannis • MarnieBolstad, Newton South High School Library Teacher, Newton Public Schools (MA) marnie_bolstad@newton.k12.ma.us • Jennifer Dimmick, Newton South High School Library Teacher, Newton Public Schools (MA) jennifer_dimmick@newton.k12.ma.us • Ethel Downey, Newton South High School Library Teacher, Newton Public Schools (MA) ethel_downey@newton.k12.ma.us • Chris Swerling (K-12 Library Coordinator) Newton Public Schools (MA) chris_swerling@newton.k12.ma.us • Dr. Fran Zilonis(Director) Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science--School Library Teacher Program mary.zilonis@simmons.eduMSLA 2014 Hyannis

  3. Session Goals: • Define S.M.A.R.T. Goals and Your Professional Development Plan (Chris) • Outline Action Research Steps (Fran) • Model the Process in Action: (Ethel, Jennifer, Marnie) S.M.A.R.T. Goals + Action Research: What We Did And What We Learned MSLA 2014 Hyannis

  4. MA Professional Educator Plan: Components • Professional Goal • Student Goal • 1-2 year plan • Requirement • Opportunity

  5. S.M.A.R.T. How will you improve your practice? What will you do differentlyas a result? Be motivated! Engage in Action Research!

  6. What is Action Research? “Simply put, action research is ‘studying whatever you are doing’through disciplined inquiry.” How to Use Action Research in the Self- renewing School.(Emily Calhoun) The goal is to take action and to improve one’s own practice, based on the deeper understanding that relevant data can provide.

  7. Taking The First Step: BE REFLECTIVE! • Target what you would like to improve or what you want to know. • Problem: Reduction in 4th grade reading • Sample question: • Will the use of book talks and book trailers motivate fourth grade students to select, read, and complete featured titles?

  8. Taking The Next Step: Define why the problem is important to you, to your students, and to your school community. • What do you know about it? • What don’t you know about it?

  9. Craft Your Question: Question Checklist: • Clear? • Broad enough to provide information? • Narrow enough to be manageable? • Focused enough to inform your practice?

  10. Research Your Question: Review the Literature • What can you learn from others ? (review the professional literature) • What can you learn from past research? • How similar is the research to your question? • After reading relevant literature, how has your thinking changed? • How can this information shape your thinking and your question?

  11. Define The Data: Data Collection • What data do you need? • Qualitative and Quantitative • How and when will you collect data? • How much is enough? • Triangulation of Data • What is your timeline? (2-3 months) • Multiple Perspectives

  12. Define the Data: Qualitative Data • Interviews • Anecdotal evidence/stories • Focus groups • Responses to prompts • Recording observations

  13. Define The Data: Quantitative Data: • Pre-and post-attitudinal surveys • Assessment of students • Attendance logs • Evaluation of professional development • Assessment of student products with a rubric • Standardized tests

  14. Analyze The Data • Sift through, categorize, and sort • What can you learn from the data? • What patterns, insights, and new understandings can you find? • What meaning do these patterns, insights, and new understandings have for your practice and for your students? • What conclusions can be drawn?

  15. Apply Your Learning: Create An Action Plan • What will you now do differently as a result of your study? • How will you implement change? • Develop your Action Plan.

  16. Action Planning: • What will you do differently in your library as a result of this study? • Create your improvement plan based on facts. • Implement improvements.

  17. Sample PD Plan: Professional Goal Actions, Timeline and Resources

  18. Apply Your Learning • Implement the action plan. • Evaluate it. • Begin the questioning process again.

  19. Reporting Results: • Who is your audience? • Principal, district-wide, professional conferences, journal article • What is the purpose of the report? • Decide on format? • Use the data analysis to show participant experiences and interpretation of events. • How will you write about what you have learned so that the findings will be useful to you and to others? • How will you share it? • Give a presentation at a local or national conference

  20. You Try It! Greet, Meet and Create A PD Goal In small groups transform this statement: Identify the impact of research resources on information literacy skills to a PD Plan S.M.A.R.T. goal and – Action Research! Be sure to apply the S.M.A.R.T criteria!

  21. How Did You Do? Did working together make the process easier? Questions? Thank You! Stay tuned for Part II: What this looked like in action at NSHS Library

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