| Action Planning Template | ||||
| Goal: To determine the benefits of using the document camera and Promethean board within the choir classroom regarding sight singing. | ||||
| Action Steps(s): | Person(s) Responsible: | Timeline: Start/End | Needed Resources | Evaluation |
| Discuss topic with site mentor. | Myself, Site | 1/31/12-2/2/12 | E-mail | Approval of topic, discussion and suggestions on how to improve and enhance project. |
| Pre-assessment of test classes to determine the required knowledge to proceed to sight singing. Example: Solfege (Do, re, mi) and Kodaly hand signs that work in cooperation with Solfege. | Myself, Students | 2/27/12-3/2/12 | Music resources: Review Sheets of Kodaly Hand Signs. Taken from: The Singing Musician by Patti De Witt | Do the students have mastery of Kodaly hand signs that align with the appropriate solfege (Do, Re, Mi)? |
| Begin sight singing teaching with both beginning classes. One will be learning the traditional method with music that is printed on paper while being held in the student’s hand. The other class will be learning sight singing utilizing technology with the use of the document camera and Promethean board | Myself, Students | 3/5/12-3/30/12 | Printed examples of sight reading taken from: Patterns of Sound by Bacack and Crocker, Document Camera, Promethean Board | Assessment and evaluation of classes in their progress. How far did they progress within the sight singing curriculum? Are the technology classes able to transition back to using paper? Documented details of mini-assessments within a researcher’s notebook. |
| Finalizing Action Research Project by analyzing the process and results of the project to best determine which method I will implement in the future. | Myself | 4/2/12/-4/6/12 | Class Assessment Data, Researcher’s Notebook, MS Word | How did each class do? What was the progress in both classes? Which classes seem to have a better understanding of the process and the content? Which method will serve my student’s the best? Which method will I continue to use in the future? Study student thoughts on sight reading. |
Format based on Tool 7.1 from Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools
(Harris, Edmonson, and Combs, 2010)
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