Teacher Research Plan?

Question: What are effective teaching strategies that benefit students with Aspergers and can be implemented in a whole class environment?

Types of Sources and Data

1. Interview with Occupational Therapist
2. Interview with LRC Teachers
3. Interviews with in-service and pre-service teachers
4. Tallies of behavior before and after implementation
5. Articles about effective strategies to implement
6. Pictures of students using the artifacts that I introduce
7. Use of the artifacts that I implement in the classroom
8. Field Notes
9. Interviews with students
10. Pictures/Diagrams of the classroom
11. Visual Aids in the classroom.  
12. Books on Aspergers
13. Books on Classroom Management

Goals 

• By the end of the year, students will use classroom implementations to self-direct themselves away from off task behaviors.
• See a difference in the behavior of all students, but in particular the two students with Asperger's.
• I want to work with other professionals to inform my practices.
• I want to keep better notes, both in the field and on personal research time.
• Find good teaching strategies that I can eventually implement in my own classroom.
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Plan for collecting and managing data

• Using this blog to keep track of my overall project.
• Taking notes at my teaching site on a daily basis
• Keeping voice messages to myself and while conducting interviews
• Writing notes as I read articles

RESEARCH TEAM 

*Hailey*Rachel*Crystal*Jenn
How we're communicating 
We will each be creating a blog and responding to each others posts. We will respond to each others posts by the Sunday before each dialogical analysis is due. On our blogs we will post at least a summary of what we have found up to that point. During Class time, each member of the group will work on writing their dialogical analysis and use each other to help write our own pieces.

What do we need from each other?

I think that discovering what we need from each other will be an ongoing process. We don't exactly know what we need from each other at this point, other than continual support and critical feedback. Answers to questions, and helping each other through frustrations.

 What do I need from Jennifer?

I mainly will just need support and critical feedback on my assignments.

By first meeting

• Literature read
• initial in class research done
• implement at least two new strategies
• set up interview with occupational specialist/lrc teacher