Well, I thought I had a great Action Research Plan, but with some changes going on at my school it seemed appropriate to change that plan. My plan was to research how iPad's could be effective in the classroom to determine if we should buy them for our school. The end result was that they are not going to be buying iPad's in the near future. So back to the drawing board.
This summer I was asked to attend a training in South Carolina for Action Based Learning. We had started a lab last year in Kindergarten. The theory behind Action Based Learning (ABL) is that the brain learns and maintains more information if there is movement.
Two other teachers and myself will be working with a group of 12 first graders that do not know the letters of the alphabet or the sounds that they make. We will each have 4 students. I will be running my students through an ABL Lab where they are up and moving while the others sit and learn. They all will be seen for 30 minutes a day, 4 days a week for a total of 3 weeks. At the end of the three weeks a post test will be given to all of the students to see if there is a difference in sitting and learning or learning while in motion.
