Active Board Students Engagement Increase

The problem: Students because of technology and high levels of media exposure are used to receive high volumes of information and stimulation during short period of time. Because of this, students attention spam has become shorter and motivation and promoting engagement techniques have become an essential tool for anyone trying to spend a day in a classroom and achieve learning from students. Because of this my inquiry is what is the relationship between Active Board usage in a lesson and students engagement and attention spam increase?

Goals and objectives/outcomes of the research investigation: Measure the impact on attention spam and students engagement of multimedia lesson based on Active Boards and how it helps students to succeed academically and motivate the usage of Active Board among LF Smith Elementary teachers.

Activities designed to achieve the objectives:

Interactive lesson plan, regular worksheet lesson plan, student survey, teacher survey.

Resources and research tools needed for data gathering:

• Active Board hardware
• Active inspire software
• Lesson plan
• Assessments
• Students survey
• Teacher Survey
• Power Point Presentation

Draft time line for completion or implementation of activities

 

Action Step	Person(s) Responsible	Timeline: Start/ End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Examining the work	Intern	02/04/11	Lesson Plan Students Survey	Were students more engaged?
Analyzing data	Intern	02/05/11	Teacher observation students survey	How much more attention spam and engagement did students have?
Developing deeper understanding	Intern	02/08/11	Teacher observation students survey	What are the reasons why students liked the interactive lesson?
Engaging in Self-Reflection	Intern	02/10/11	Teacher observation students survey	How can this be applied to other teachers and how?
Exploring Programmatic Patterns	Intern	02/11/11	Teacher observation students survey	Does this apply to all students? What groups of students were impacted the most?
Determining direction	Intern	02/12/11	Students survey teacher observation	Is then relevant to apply and use Active Board more everyday?
Taking action for school improvement	Intern	02/13/11	Faculty meeting power point presentation.	How other teachers can get involved and obtain the same benefits?
Sustaining improvement	Intern	02/14/11	Teacher Survey	How can a permanent inquiry and reflection process about the benefits of Active Board can be established among teacher of LF Smith Elementary

Persons responsible for implementation of the action research plan

Intern will perform all activities needed to complete this action research project.

Process for monitoring the achievement of goals and objectives

Teacher will work with class doing addition and subtraction problems on Active Board and measure for how long students are engaged and participating in solving the problems.

Assessment instrument(s) to evaluate the effectiveness of the action research study

Teacher will measure time students work engaged and interested in solving math addition problems using Active Board and not using it and compare the difference in time and quality of students work and performance.