1. ACTION STEPS RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS
NEEDED
Analyze data from previous school year Data walk through data; AEIS
information
Professional Development for teachers on Literature on strategies; seasoned
strategies for implementing active student professionals to help with training;
engagement mentor teachers
Teacher survey Send out a survery to all teachers
asking them what they know about
student engagement and the
strategies used
Walk throughs Data walk throughs to gather data
about instructional strategies and
compare % to last year's data
Observations Using a checklist, observe teachers in
classrooms; take notes of
observations as well
Interviews Interview teachers to gather insight
about their strategies and what they
already know
Student Samples After observations of lesson, gather
student samples of entire classroom
making note of those that were
actively engaged and those that
were not actively engaged
Data Analysis Use student samples, data walk
information, benchmarking, and
TAKS information to compare data
3. RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS TIME LINE EVALUATION
ACTIVITIES
Researcher August - September What does this data
tell me?
Researcher and classroom August - May What strategies help
teachers to engage students in
active engagement?
Researcher September What do teachers
already know about
student engagement?
Researcher, principal, assistant September - October What percentage of
principal the time are students
engaged in active
engagement?
Researcher and administrators October - March What strategies are
teachers using to
engage students?
Researcher and classroom March What do teachers
teachers already know about
student engagement?
Researcher March - April How successful are
students when
actively engaged
during the lesson?
Researcher April - June How do students that
were actively engaged
compare to students
who were not actively
engaged?
4. Researcher August of next year What strategies have
we learned to help
students become
successful? How do
the scores of these
students compare?
