Episode 2: Embedding Action Research for Reflective Teaching
PARTICIPATE AND ASSIST
You must have experienced in your past subjects, doing some activities or accomplishing
tasks similar to an action research. These are activities that required you to do Reflection and Make
Action or the other way around. Schon (1987) distinguishes Reflection in Action or Reflection on
Action as two different things.
Perhaps your mentor teacher has already done an Action Research. Now is the opportunity for
you to participate and assist in ways that you are capable of doing.
Here is what you will do.
Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles by Teachers in the Field
1. Make a library or on-line search of the different Completed Action Research Titles Conducted by
Teachers.
2. Enter the list in the matrix similar to the one below.
3. Submit your list of five (5) Titles of Completed Action Research Studies to your mentor as
reference.
Inventory of Sample Action Research Conducted by Teachers
List of Completed Action Research Titles Author/Authors
Ex. Differentiated Instruction in Teaching English Mary Joy Olicia
for Grade Four Classes
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NOTICE
Based on your activity on Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles, let's find out what you
have noticed by answering the following questions.
Questions My Answer
1. What have you noticed about the action 1. Identified problem to be solved in title
research titles? Do the action research (AR) no.1
titles imply problems to be solved? Yes_____
No______
If YES, identify the problems from the title you
have given. Answer in the space provided. 2. Identified problem to be solved in title
no.2
3. Identified problem to be solved in title
no.3
4. Identified problem to be solved in title
no.4
5. Identified problem to be solved in title no.
5
2. What interpretation about action research can Title of the Action Research:
you make out of your answer in Question No. 1?
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3. Write the Title and your interpretation of the From the title, I think, the study…
study from the title.
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4. What do you think did the author/s do with the I think the Author/s...
identified problem as presented in their titles?
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ANALYZE
Action research seems easy and familiar. Since teaching seems to be full of problematic
situations and that the teacher has a responsibility of finding solution for everyday problems in hence
teachers should do action research. This is an exciting part of being a teacher, a solver!
Let us continue to examine and analyze what you have noticed and interpreted in the activity.
Key Questions My Answer
Choose from the options given. You may check
more than one answer.
1. From what source do you think, did the Choices:
authors identify the problems of their action ___Copied from research books
research? ___From daily observation of their teaching
practice.
___From difficulties they observed of their
learners.
___From their own personal experience.
___From the told experiences of their co-
teachers.
2. What do you think is the teacher's intention in Choices:
conducting the action research? ___To find a solution to the problematic situation
___To comply with the requirement of the
principal
___To improve teaching practice
___To try out something, if it works
___To prove oneself as better than the others
3. What benefit do you get as a student in FS 2 Choices:
in understanding and doing action research? ___Prepare me for my future job
___Get good grades in the course
___Learn and practice being an action
researcher
___Improve my teaching practice
___Exposure to the realities in the teaching
profession
___Become a better teacher everyday
4. In what ways, can you assist your mentor in ___By co-researching with my mentor
his/her Action Research Activity? ___By assisting in the design of the intervention
___By assisting in the implementation of the AR
___By just watching what is being done
REFLECT
Based on the readings you made and the previous activities that you have done,
1. What significant ideas or concepts have you learned about action research?
I learned that...
2. Have you realized that there is a need to be an action researcher as a future teacher? Yes No If
yes, complete the sentence below.
I realized that...
Write Action Research Prompts
OBSERVE
From what teaching principles of theories can this problem be anchored?
I have observed and noticed that Action Research begins with a problem or a problematic
situation.
Write an example of a problematic situation that you have observed and noticed.
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REFLECT
What have I realized? What do I hope to achieve?
I realized that for every teaching learning problem, there is a solution. Write a probable solution to the
problematic situation above_____________
PLAN
What strategies, activities, innovations can I employ to improve the situation or solve the problem?
As a future action researcher I can plan for an appropriate intervention like______________
ACT
If I conduct or implement my plan, what can be its title?
If will implement my doable plan in the future, my title would be__________
Work on my Artifacts
Your Artifact will be an Abstract of a completed action research.
