My first action plan week

This week I implemented my first steps of the action plan, for example, for this week to the end of the school year, Wednesday is going to be a one and one teacher student time day, and the students that need more practice of what has being studied in the week are going to have an approximate of 10 to 15 minutes with me to clarify doubts and practice different language skills, this Wednesday I had time to practice with 5 students, and in my opinion it was very successful, for example this week we were practicing present continiuous, several students weren´t able to complete the tasks they were asked for, and after having a one on one T-S they were able to complete the activities, so it was clear that this time was very useful for the students.

Friday was the first learn while playing day and we play¨ Simon Says¨, it was good although I realize that even if it is a game day the lesson plan have to be planed very carefully if not, it could end up being just about playing and not too much about learning, I realize that the children get in playing mood and it is harder to control the group, for next Friday I´m going to look for games with more clearer learning goals.

Overall it was a good week, I´m getting to know the students better, and more important I´m getting more comfortable being a ¨teacher¨, I feel more confident doing the weekly lesson plan and I confront the outcomes with more security.

Action Plan

ACTION PLAN

Statement of Goal(s) and Objectives:

My principal objective is to ensure that students are taking advantage of the English course, in their correct language level, and also to improve students feeling towards the English class

IMPLEMENTATION				EVALUATION
What needs to be done?	By whom?	When?	What resources (human and material) are needed?	What evidence indicates progress?	How and when will that evidence be collected?
Step 1 One on one T-S practicing time	Montserrat Pérez Arias	One day a week	Students with the lowest English level and teacher	That students feel more confident in group classes	With students homework and participation
Step 2 Reading comprehension activities	Montserrat Perez Arias	One day a week	All group students, different readings	That students improve their reading skills	With students participations in reading activities
Step 3 Playing and learning day	Montserrat Pérez Arias	One day a week	Students and different didactic games	That students feel less reluctant to the English class	With the students participation in the activities
Step 4 Capacitation of the Montessori system to English teachers	By school ¨Guides¨	Once a month	School teachers	That all school teachers have the same information about how the school  works	Everyday teaching practice

Adapted from the World View Action Plan (University of North Carolina)

Needs Analysis

NEEDS ANALYSIS

This activity was really helpful to me because now that I have more time in my SS, I got to know better how the school works and what in my opinion has to be done to improve; because of the way the Montessori method is designed, the students in the same classroom have different ages and language levels, but they follow the same curriculum, and in my specific classroom there is a problem of lack of interest from the students

So I identify as my first purpose to measure students overall understanding of the program, and also to identify students feeling towards the English class to understand their needs. The target population of the study was first of all students, and secondly ¨guides¨ and school administrators. The teachers in the Montessori system are known as ¨guides¨

The needs analysis was conducted by the group guide, the principal of the school and me. The survey methods used was a test to measure students understanding of the course and an interview to measure students’ feelings of the course. At first it wasn´t easy to convince the administrators to let me apply a questionnaire to the students, because of the school method exams and test are not common in the school, there exist other ways of evaluation; once the administrator accepted to do the questionnaires’, the students were very reluctant and it was hard to make them take it seriously, but with the help of the classroom ¨guide¨ the students took the test.

After completing the questionaries’ and interviews we were able to verify that while some students were working according to the course, a lot of them were not in the same level, and were getting behind, we were also able to identify that some students have the need of one on one time with the professor to clarify doubts and students were concerned that they didn´t have enough practice time of what it´s learned in a lesson

	CURRICULUM		INSTRUCTION		ORGANIZATION
	Strength	Need	Strength	Need	Strength	Need
Student	Students work well with the course design	Make sure that all students are advancing along with the curriculum	Students pleased with the instruction of the course	It will be useful to have more one on one T-S time to clarify doubts	Students understand the organization of the course correctly	Students should have more time to practice
Staff	Teachers do follow the curriculum design	Constant reinsurance of students comprehension	Guides follow the correct way of instruction that most be given according to the school	There should be more instruction capacitation for the teachers that have no experience as guides	The ¨guides¨  are well organized	There should be more instruction to the teachers that are not ¨guides¨ of how the organization of the school most be
Parents/ Community		It might be helpful if parents are more aware of the curriulum	Constant teacher-parents communication		Parents are invited to field trips at least once a month.	All parents should be involved not just a few of them
Facilities/Materials	The school has enough teaching materials to work with	Students have to be more careful with the materials	There are plenty of teaching aids to support instruction	Tecgnology should be more available		There should be more time designed to use technology for learning purposes