|
|
Phase Requirements Overview
For
phase 3 (Planning for Looking and Listening) you will submit a detailed plan for "looking and
listening," which describes and explains ways you will gather
information to help you answer your question.
What to Submit for
This Phase
-
WAYS YOU WILL LOOK AND LISTEN. Indicate at least two ways you plan to
look and listen in order to directly answer your question.
-
DETAILS ABOUT EACH WAY THAT YOU WILL LOOK AND LISTEN. For
each way, include the following information:
-
For whom
will you interview, observe, and/or collect
information from? For
example, if you are collecting information from
children, what grade(s) are they in? What are their
academic backgrounds? What is your relationship to
them? If you are collecting information from
colleagues, how long have they been teaching? What
do they teach? What is your relationship with them?
-
What will you be
collecting? Be specific. Are you going to be writing
notes in a journal? How do you plan to organize your
notes? Do you have surveys or questionnaires?
(If so, a blank copy should be submitted.*) Will you
be conducting a focus group? If so, what questions
do you plan to ask while facilitating that group?
* Note: If your
plan includes using self-created checklists, surveys, questionnaires, assessments, be sure to include blank copies of
those tools with your plan.
-
Where will you
look and listen? Where will you observe? Where will
you interview students? From where will you get student
work?
-
When will you
collect this information? What is your timeline for
gathering it all? How will you schedule observations
and/or interviews? How long will you observe? How
many times? How long will interviews be?
-
REFLECTION. (This is the
why
of your plan.)
For each way in which you plan to look, include the following information:
-
Why you feel
it will help you learn more about your question.
-
The pros and
cons of collecting information in this way (from
your own perspective).
-
Problems you
anticipate with your plan.
|
