Chapter 2 in the book Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher gave many examples of read action research projects completed in schools. In the assignment, I looked at the nine passions that help educators to find an initial wondering for their action research project. The nine passions include: Staff Development, Curriculum Development, Individual teachers, Individual students, Community/Culture Building, Leadership skills, Management, School performance, and Social Justice. In developing my own wondering, I learned that the question must be something you are passionate about, it must be clear, concise, and specific, it must be a question that you do not already know the answer to, it must be free of judgemental language, it must be phrased as an open-ended question, and it must be doable (Dana, 2009, p.67). I also found pages 65 and 66 in the Dana text to be beneficial. It includes a list of sample wonderings organized by each of the nine passions. I also learned that it is important that the researcher let the original wondering evolve and change over time. This is exactly what has already happened to me. My original idea was to research the impact of blogs on student motivation in reading and writing. I have decided to change this to the impact of blogs on the achievement of students in reading and writing. After discussing my idea with my mentor, we decided that motivation is a hard thing to measure quantitatively.
Dana, N. (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge: The principal as action researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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