Mentor/Researcher Agreed Upon Action Research Plan

After meeting with my action research mentor this week, we discovered more questions regarding issues that may affect my action research on the short and long term. One of the main issues that always come to discussion is internet safety. Due to the fact that we are a catholic institution, internet safety is one of the most important factors that my mentor is concern about. We decided that to be on the safe side, the next meeting we schedule is going to be with the presence of our school’s server manager. That way we can ask questions, be proactive, and better understand how our can students will be safe in, and out of our campus. All the options will be consider and we will team up to find solutions to all the problems we might encounter.

Another recurrent issue was scheduling the right time for instruction to prepare our students for the program. Last week we talked about selecting a sample group that was going to provide some virtual data that we can start using to make changes and to develop a more accurate plan. After discussing the plan with the sample group, we decided the first time we implement the online class, we will weight it on the grade books to make sure we don’t affect the students GPA with an experimental course.

We truly believe this options will improve the program, and that the program itself will help our middle school students be better prepared when they more to high school.