My thoughts on action research!!!

I am excited about learning more about this action plan aspect of our careers/program. I have just got my feet wet on the topic and it has shown to be interesting and beneficial. I never realized that action plans really existed until this week. I like the reasoning behind the idea's of action plans. I feel they serve great purpose to all stakeholders due to the fact that we are indeed taking action on a topic or weakness in order to better that issue. I related this to principal's placing teacher's on growth plans. I understand it is a little different but it is how I related to the term. I felt that if a principal properly evaluates his/her teachers and places one on a growth plan than he/she is performing an action plan on that teacher. He/she is taking action on his research and findings of that particular teacher and trying to change that person's flaws as a teacher in hopes of saving a career. To me, action research is like when we as teachers develop curriculum or classroom activities that focus on students weaknesses according to their CSR's. We analyze their CSR's and provide instruction for each individual student in correlation to their weaknesses. We research their strengths and weaknesses and plan accordingly. We find our findings, evaluate them, and finally plan accordingly.