The Focus Of My Action Research

The school in which I conducted my action research cycle is a large public school consisting of 560 students located in Western Sydney. I was placed in a composite year 3/4 class of 27 students with high achieving abilities. At this school, the Stage two cohort are assessed and placed into three groups based on their abilities. The class I was assigned was the highest with mixed abilities. My mentor teacher was well trained in current teaching pedagogy, in particular Newman’s strategies for critical thinking and incorporating these into routines. There were high expectations placed on the students both academically and behaviourally, including allowing students to take risks in their learning, demonstrate their problem solving skills and reasoning,

English learners are currently the fastest developing student population in schools today. This makes it extremely important to provide these students with the programs and services they deserve. Providing a strong education for ELL students is what I personally believe to be an asset in America’s future. Today there are many challenges I believe teachers and students face when it comes to instruction and assessments.

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School board members across the country want to better serve the students who are English language learners. Because countless English language learner students spend part of their academic day in a regular classroom, the general education teachers need to be trained to understand instructional strategies and techniques to aid in advancing this population of students (Stover, 2015). Consequently, it would also be beneficial for school board members to support the bilingual and English Language Learner Specialist in training all teachers in the district on ways to better serve this population.

The class is a mainstreamed first grade co-teach class of 34 students and two teachers. There are 16 females and 18 males that included 12 active English Language Learners (ELLs) (5 females, 7 males) and five Level 5 (proficient) students. The 12 ELL students represent five languages—Spanish (7), Chinese (1), Chin Burmese (1), and Arabic (2), Brazilian Portuguese (1). Eight of the twelve students tested at Level 1 on the WIDA language proficiency scale.

Reading Chapter 7, Taking Action, helped me to better understand the ways in which perceptual processes such as ones that are being physically active in the world. Through most of the 20th century, the dominant way perception research was carried out was by having stationary observer look at static stimuli in a laboratory situation. Gibson argued that this traditional way of studying perception lacked ecological validity. Ecological perception is defined as a valid experiment that matches its stimuli, conditions, and procedures to those present in the natural world. There are three separate optic flows including: gradient of flow, focus of expansion, and self-produced information. Gradient of flow is the difference in flow as a function of distance from the observer. Focus of expansion is the point in distance where

Hill, J.D., & Flynn, K.M. (2006). Classroom instruction that works with English language learner. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

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The SUNY is a diverse university which has around 43% of minority students, including Hispanic/Latino, Black or African American, Asian/ Pacific Islander, ESL, and international students. Those students often encounter difficulties in English listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and understanding the Western academic culture, especially for ESL and international students. Since I received the professional training in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) in the Master’s and Ph.D. programs at the Ohio State University and have English teaching experience to diverse learners in EFL and ESL settings for around 9 years, I would like to help those minority students at the SUNY Oneota understand the Western academic culture, overcome academic difficulties they encounter, and improve their overall English competence. Helping those minority students is my short-term career goal. My long-term career goal is to increase K-12 content and ESL teachers’ and

How in the world did this film cost 20 million dollars to make? Johnny Knoxville has largely earned his fame by doing bodily harm to himself that no reasonable person would even consider. Well, he’s back with another excuse to hurt himself on camera. Normally if a teenage is cutting themselves, you try to sit down have a talk with them, maybe even seek professional help. Knoxville who is about three steps away from 50 years old just can’t seem to let the past go and at his age, it’s starting to get pretty sad. What many people won’t know going into this movie is that Action Point is loosely based on the real-life story of a renegade theme park called Action Park from the 1970s. Knoxville plays D.C. who is the owner of the park. The rules of

As a certified English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, the English Language Learner (ELL) population is very near and dear to my heart. According to Barr, Eslami, & Joshi (2012), the ELL population is the fastest growing demographic in the U.S with most incoming students arriving from Asia/Pacific Islands and Hispanic regions. Both of these populations are expected to continue to increase in the future. Over two-thirds of this population over the age of 5 speak a second language at home. According to the 2013-2014 Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) there were 67 ELL enrolled on our campus, which is 3.6 percent of the total population of 1,851 students. Although this year our ELL population is lower than usual in future years are numbers are expected to grow exponential due to the rapid growth currently happening in our community. According to the Texas Education Agency (TEA), ELL students continue to have low achievement levels when compared to their native speaking peers. Data shows that as students get older, their success rates are lower and lower with over half not reaching mastery at the high school levels. Our campus is not different. The TAPR report shows that only 57% of our ELL population scored satisfactory on the end of year STAAR exam, which is almost 10% lower than the state average of 76% passing and 35% lower than the campus average of 92% passing. Due to these deficits, it is imperative to develop and plan of action that will help to bridge

The strengths of my advanced action research involves building on the requisite literature to proceed with the research. The annotated bibliography and the references that present the data --that is, the literature review figures very heavily in the advanced action research. The annotated bibliography represents those areas of focus for the dissertation and thereby allows the researcher the luxury of building pertinent information and more references upon that annotated bibliography. Ergo, the annotated bibliography not only serves the purpose of a quick and convenient reference point for the dissertation, but also serves as the spring board for more research pertinent to the annotated bibliography. Going forward, these additional bibliographic

This week, aspects that were important were the essential components of instructional programs for ELL students, differences in ESL and sheltered instruction, choosing the right program, and the new component being sheltered instruction. The essential language components for instructional programs are ESL instruction, content-area instruction, and supporting the student’s primary language. There are differences between ESL instruction and sheltered instruction, with those differences aiding in determining the right program to use as an educator. A completely new component to me this week was the information on sheltered instruction.

Knowledge is power and a college campus is the gathering place for those who understand this rule. Properly collecting large amounts of data in the form of opinions and thoughts of those who go to a college is important to evoke conversations and provide answers to various topics. The following literature review will take a look at four surveys that were taken place on college campuses to see how proper survey creation and distribution is needed to collect quality data.

Research always is an important part in Master study, which was composed by variety parts such as action research, case study, context, etc. This essay will discuss and analysis the importance of some research terminology from 5 parts: action research, case study, primary sources, secondary sources and multidiscipline. Besides, it will explain the meaning and give some examples for each part.