Hello Future Leaders!
When I first delve into the text concerning action research I was somewhat hesitant. I mean, "What is the difference? Research is research!" I was wrong. Traditionally a principal, in my perspective, was simply a liaison from expert research to the teacher. Teachers were led by others and therefore told how to run the classroom. Let's face it--twenty years ago self reflection was null and void. teachers used the same methods for all students with the hopes that the student "got it."
Action research allows the principal and the teacher to react and self reflect in all facets of education! The leader/teacher has ownership of their plan and how to carry out the plan by using the strategies founded or created. We want our students to become critical thinkers and risk takers; therefore, all teachers should apply that same concepts to themselves. Action research advocates this process.
Blogging is great, but yet informal way, for communication to parents, teachers, or administrators. I would use my blog as community forum. This enables the people inour community, who support my district, to learn about the current events in our schools. Its great way for parents or all stakeholders to provide me with suggestions or options about their child's academic progress.
I believe that your insight in the way things use to be done and the way they are done now is right on. We have moved from a society that does things only one way to one that uses multiple strategies to arrive at the same destination. Then determining which one works best for each situation that arises.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the blog as a communication tool for the community is another development in society that education needs to catch up with.
I felt the same way about "research is research!" I remember feeling very overwhelmed at the webconferences, like I wasn't getting something. Now that we are beginning the course, I realize it is something that master teachers and principals do that we might not have realized had a name.
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