Day Seven

We are beginning to take our first steps into the world of action research by working in groups to research something we observe happening here during our stay. Last week I was very worried about this, but am now very excited about the process.

We practiced taking scratch notes and field notes in our classes this past week, and today we analyzed them - looked for patterns, from which we could generate hypotheses. This was very interesting and I enjoyed trying to put the pieces together in new and different ways, and finding patterns that I never would have seen, otherwise.

We also saw the action research presentations of the second year students. It was very helpful to see these examples and to hear about the process they went through. And of course, I heard some interesting ideas about connecting through collaborative writing, conceptual teaching, and peer editing.