My Innovation Plan involves integrating project-based learning into my campus’ after school club program. I originally wanted to do my action research on the academic benefits of PBL; however, daily learning targets and state standards have our schedule so tightly packed, there was no way of convincing teachers to try time-consuming PBL in their classrooms. I changed course to focus on the after-school club program, hoping still to affect academic growth. When narrowing down a research question, it became apparent that student behavior would be much easier to observe and measure in a shorter time period. Click the button to see my full outline
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Literature ReviewThere is an abundance of literature to support the idea that project-based learning benefits students academically and socially, but not as many sources that tackle the question of the effect of PBL on student behavior. What I was able to do is link project-based learning to increased self-regulation and confidence, which in turn increases on-task behavior.
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Action Research Plan Action research involves the following 4 stages:
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