Action Research Plan

Action Planning Template
Goal: To discover which motivation strategies work most effectively at the student, teacher, and administrator level and determine the relationship that they play towards one another-because everyone is motivated differently, meeting the needs of all becomes very difficult-this study will provide insight as to which motivation techniques are the most effective as a whole at the 3 different levels of individuals found in a school system
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Initially poll sample size of students, teachers, and administrators regarding what motivates them and examine schools’ overall climate	Shawna Walker Site supervisor	Realistically, I believe that this project could be completed within a six month span but as I learn more and progress with my research, I know that it may be subject to change,  I believe that I will spend about a month developing each of my activities in my plan Start: August 2013	Created polls	Look for patterns among students, teachers, and administrators (Do individuals seem to want to be there at all levels?)
Review polls	Shawna Walker Site Supervisor	August 2013	Gathered polls	summarize what technique is the most commonly desired among the students, teachers, and administrators-analyze data by comparing it to outside research-are there any patterns in found results?
Introduce involved parties to a system that will implement desired motivational strategies (for example, the administrator will implement what techniques teachers said that they find to be the most motivating and teachers will implement a system applying the approaches that the students find to be the most motivating)	Shawna Walker Site Supervisor	September 2013	Information gathered from initial polls	Complete observations, focus groups, etc. periodically
Note progress among individual levels or lack there of periodically by interviewing, observing, etc	Shawna Walker	October 2013	Increase in attendance records, behavior improvements	Interviewing
If progress has not occurred, introduce motivational strategies found in outside research that prove to be successful (this step is included because most people THINK that they know what will motivate them but in reality, they are just considering a in the moment, extrinsic motivational technique such as rewards that provide no life-long changes)	Shawna Walker	November 2013	Articles found focusing on effective motivational strategies, previous textbooks that discuss motivation	Poll involved parties about changes in strategies, complete observations, actively listen and observe
Note overall school climate again (if the principal is more motivated, does that trickle down to the teachers? If teachers are  motivated, does that affect the students? )	Shawna Walker Site Supervisor	December 2013		Self-assess am I actually finding my desired information? What can I do to increase the productivity of this plan? Are my planned activities working or do I need to make adjustments? Am I asking the appropriate questions?
Analyze data to determine which motivational techniques were the most effective? (strategies that individuals desired vs export research techniques) Share findings with peer teachers, classmates, and administrators	Shawna Walker Site Supervisor	January-February 2014	All data (observations, polls, etc)	Analyze/ compare all data