Learning Lightbulbs has Launched

Learning Lightbulbs’ first week was a busy one!   First, we came together as a team and narrowed our team focus and description.  We have created our team in order to collaborate on designing an action research project to systematically evaluate and analyze our teaching practices as elementary school teachers in order to improve teaching and learning in our schools and increase student performance.

Our team will work collaboratively to design our action research project.  While we may work independently on various small portions of the project, frequent communication will occur during all stages of the project's development.  Team members will meet in person on designated evenings, and will communicate via Smart PD team messages, phone, email, and our team blog between meetings to ensure constant collaboration.

This week our main activities centered on familiarizing ourselves with action research, exploring what it is and how it fits into the greater research picture, and how it can be utilized in educational settings in order to best improve teaching and learning.  Individually each team member read about action research in education, both in our textbook and using online resources, and completed learning activities in order to process and synthesize our new knowledge.  We then used Smart PD team messages to share our thoughts and build upon one another’s ideas, in order to allow all team members to achieve a comprehensive understanding of action research and provide a strong starting point for our work in the weeks to come.