Do you need to restate your essential question? Is it the same as semester one? Supporting Struggling Reader Achievement: Does Time Spent One-on-One with the Teacher for Goal Setting Make a Difference in Language Arts Performance? Yes goal setting does make a big difference by nearly double (58pts vs. 96pts), but what might make a bigger difference is practice on focusing through Mindfulness practice and/or teaching more ELL strategies and use more of John Hattie's 252 Effective Learning strategies.
- How did your findings influence your thinking about the bigger challenge? My findings lead me to a positive outlook on goal setting, but a deeper look as to how to get struggling readers all feel that concentrating is a bigger issue than I had originally thought.
- What do you know now? Does daily practice of Mindfulness increase 3rd graders ability to focus when it comes to reading and comprehension?
- What do you need find out and how will you discover it? (methodology) I will teach mindfulness lesson each Monday for 15-20 minutes and practice for 1-2 minutes with various strategies and techniques each day. I will give another student survey and retest them on a Reading Inventory comprehension test to see if reading comprehension scores improved.
- What data will you collect to inform you? I will collect a student survey about focus and give them the original reading inventory test.
- How is your research innovative? New and scale-able (can be adopted on a bigger scale by others. Mindfulness seems to be the new wave of mind clarity and self control. It has been studied to have many useful purposes and benefits for total well being. Mindfulness is non secular and offers many health benefits for the mind and the body. John Hattie seems to be on the edge of best teaching practices and I am interested in exploring more around his research with ELL students.