The Implementation Of Organizational Strategies

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,

Researcher’s encounter difficulties during implementation and/or while performing methodologies may also reference action research findings for clarity or solutions. Researchers may benefit from previous action research findings when attempting to determine what has improved or decreased in their action researcher findings, while performing evaluations. While revising action research action plans, researchers may also reference previous action research findings to determine if any alterations or revisions need to be

Action research- a process of different methods that are used to diagnose and solve issues that arise within schools or problems that teachers can face themselves. This process helps to improve or change the actions of those people involved.

Action research is a strategy I can use to inquire and gather information of how to conduct and interpret my own research for educational and building improvement purposes. Proposition 1: Teachers are committed to students and their learning. Indicator 1f: Teachers model ethic behavior and civic responsibility and address a student’s character development.

Action research began in the late 19th and early 20th century during the large idea that education must be viewed as a science. Because of Great Britain and their teacher research movement during the 1960s, action research began to change into a teacher-led curriculum reform. At some point in the 1980s, qualitative researchers were not in total agreement and pursued internal validity. They felt inquiring based on “trustworthiness” is more appropriate for a better research. Thus, the birth of professionalism created hierarchy between universities and schools. Even with professionalism changing the problem-solving framework over problem framing, scientific knowledge over personal knowledge, and facts over values, the No Child Left Behind Act created high stakes testing that de-emphasized many action research practices (Anderson, page 53). This is controversial in the sense that politics always played a role in either defending action research or going against it.

Prior to beginning any action research study in the classroom, various permissions must be granted. In addition, this study will take place in a public school; permission will be obtained from the building administrator and district officials (Cohen, Manion, & Morrison, 2007). The

When I start taking the Research Methods for Educational Leaders course I did not have an idea about action research. During this course, I have learned how to implement a scientific based research to identify a problem and find effective solutions to a problem. At the beginning of the school year 2016 -2017, all 5th - 8th grade students took the Measures of Academic Progress Test (MAP), which creates a personalized assessment experience by adapting to each student's learning level. The MAP assessments measure growth and how students are progressing, because the data can be looked at historically and are consistent from season to season. Students can take the MAP assessments up to three times in a year in reading, science

“While many school leaders focus on improvement, sustaining such improvement is their main challenge (Muijs et al., 2004).” According to standard ten of the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (2015), school leaders are to seek continuous improvement for students, families, staff, and the community. School leaders must use the data from previous years and the current year to determine specific areas of improvement that are needed to sustain or exceed previous success rates for all stakeholders. “A school may be seen as effective today but fail to move to the next level. This is because sustainability is a continuous process (Crowther, 2011), and not a once-off event.” Administrators must also engage themselves and

My previous research involved a lot of field research and ethnography using datasets and a research methodology more common in large scale social science investigations. I was utterly unfamiliar with action research as it exists within the classroom. My experience in a research institution had been publish and walk away or defend—a rather reptilian approach to one’s “product,” I think—and I hadn’t considered how research performed in the classroom could not only be useful for other interested parties but essential to maintaining my own practice, keeping it nimble yet

Bennett, 1994; Calhoun, 1994, and Kelsay, 1991 (as cited in Spaulding & Falco, 2013) stated, “Level 1 action research is conducted by teachers individually in their classrooms” (p. 19). Spaulding and Falco (2013) stated, “The purpose of action research studies is to improve teacher instruction while at the same time improving student achievement and outcomes” (p. 19). Level 1 action research can and should be utilized in every classroom in the United States. Research conducted by Bernhardt, 2004 and Reilly, 2007, (as cited in Spaulding and Falco, 2013) stated, “It is our belief that action research naturally occurs in the classrooms of highly effective and reflective teachers” (p. 20).

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StarCare Specialty Health Systems was founded in 1964 as a community mental health, mental retardation facility serving a 5 county radius adjacent to Lubbock, Texas. The complexity of the organization includes a strict hierarchy of authority, uses both vertical and horizontal communication, and has a centralized structure. Policies and procedures are written in compliance with local, state, and federal laws. There is an executive committee consisting of the CEO, CFO, two Co-Associate CEOs, Medical Director, and the Director of Quality Management. These six individuals, in conjunction with the board of directors, establish the program requirements that define its strategic intent. StarCare has a mechanistic design, exhibits all the characteristics of a bureaucracy, and follows a goal approach relating to obtaining the organization’s strategic intent. This centralized structure consists of 4 levels of management before lower level positions are identified.

Is it necessary for organizations to have an Office of Strategy Management (OSM)? The answer is yes because according to Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, operations strategy management should be a total, cross-functional effort stemming from a central department for coordination and execution (Kaplan & & Norton, 2008). Operation Strategy is a forecasted plan stating how an organization will allocate resources to support production. The strategy is driven by the overall business strategy of the organization, and is designed to maximize the effectiveness of production and support elements

Strategy literature offers many techniques and models suited for systematic strategic analysis. The SWOT analysis, the PESTEL analysis, the Five Forces analysis framework are the prime examples of techniques that can be adopted for strategic analysis. This assignment will use PESTEL and Five forces model to analysis the environment of CRH plc.

Organizations successful at strategy implementation effectively manage six key supporting factors :     1.  Action Planning