Action Research Plan:

Goals and objectives/outcomes of the research investigation:
Goal: Develop an alternative summer school program for third grade students.

Objective: The students will show academic progress by experiencing hands on learning, community based instruction, and nontraditional teaching approaches to better prepare them for fourth grade.


Activities designed to achieve the objectives

1.Speak with third grade teachers to see what skills are particularly lacking or areas of weakness
2. Look at data from benchmark tests
3.Research methods of teaching the skills that the third grade teachers suggested
4. Identify ways to teach the needed skills through community based instruction
5.Reflect on progress of program development and identify methods of improvement and meet with site supervisor to review progress
6. Write a grant proposal to fund the project (Navasota ISD Educational Foundation)
7. Write a curriculum that linked the suggested/needed skills and community based activities
8. Develop a method to evaluate student performance as well as program performance
9. Have third grade teachers identify 8 – 10 students that would benefit from the program
10. Gain permission from parents and begin the program
11.Share results with third grade teachers, principal, and campus curriculum director