Action Update

I have completed the first 5 steps of my action research plan. I administered the surveys to the students regrading their confidence in writing and was not suprised to find that many of the students did not know how to begin to write a personal narrative. I also surveyed the teachers concerns with these students writing, and many indicated that not only is the ability to write a cohesive narrative or persuasive essay important, many of these students lack the application of grammar conventions. Therefore I have continued to follow the use of the writing workshop model and I have seen a great improvement in students' confidence and their grammar applications. I need to start sifting through some of the cuurent formative assessment data in Galileo, that the school implemented recently, in order to create a data tracking chart. My research plan will not be complete however until the state test scores come back this summer and then I will be able to compare these students previous 2012 scores.