Karissa+Beaton

= My Profile: Karissa Beaton, language motivator! = = Action Research Project Planner:  = My goal is to improve the motivation and engagement of Year 8 boys learning Bahasa Indonesia. At our school Indonesian becomes an elective in Year 9 and moving toward this time for choice the boys are becoming less engaged with Indonesian and there are few electing to study Indonesian in Year 9.
 * = ** Stage 1 – ANALYSE **=
 * Which area/s of your practice would you like to improve? **


 * What will be your focus for this project in 2012? **
 * Engaging male learners to improve male retention rates.
 * Individualised learning plans so as not to overcompensate one area for another.

The investigation of Year 8 male motivation / engagement relates to two parts of the Standards:
 * Which aspects of the Standards does your project relate to **** ? **

1. Educational theory and practice. - I will need to engage with current theories of education specific to male learners.

2. Language pedagogy. - I need to assess and reflect my teaching practices, what is effective and who is it effective for? || Timeline for 2012 || - Collate information from survey on excel and categorise into male and female learners, look for patterns, common strategies. - Plan lessons using a variety of strategies from student surveys along with PD and literature. - Record after each lesson the student assessments for their engagement, sense of achievement and learning. - At the end of the term look at results and discuss differences. - At the end of the term re survey. - Term 4 incorporate a new class. || What did you do? I have emailed Sarah Pavy, she does not have any up and coming sessions but she is sending some literature. I have downloaded some information from her website along with some literature to read. This will help me to move forward with different practices and strategies.
 * = Stage 2 - PLAN =
 * Attend PD with focus on engaging male learners with a LOTE. (Sarah Pavy has been reccommended)
 * Find current literature which suggest strategies for engaging male learners
 * Survey students:
 * What have you enjoyed doing in Indonesian this semester?
 * What was your best lesson?
 * In what Indonesian lesson did you work the hardest?
 * In what Indonesian lesson did you learn the most?
 * What do not enjoy about learning Indonesian?
 * What lesson did you learn the least in?
 * What lesson did you work the least in?
 * What would you like to learn about Indonesia?
 * If you could choose any topic, what would you like your next Indonesian topic to be?
 * How would you like to learn Indonesian?
 * How do you think you would best remember new words?
 * Will you be chooosing Indonesian as an elective next year?
 * On a scale of 1 - 5 with 5 being the hardest and 1 being the easiest, how do you rate Indonesian to your other subjects?
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">On a scale of 1 - 5 with 5 being the hardest and 1 being the easiest, how do you rate Indonesian to your other subjects?
 * - Start of Term 3 Survey students. 8J (The class with the most disengaged male learners)
 * == Stage 3 – ACT ==

July 30th - I have created a survey. I will give the students the survey next week as I need to present the survey at the LOTE meeting next Tuesday before handing out. Follwing the survey I will collate and consider their responses and adapt the term plan. I am considering a private research project involving both cultural and language based components, but I will need to cosult the LOTE department before proceeding with this also. || What did you notice? || What would you do the same/differently in the future? ||
 * == Stage 4 - OBSERVE ==
 * == Stage 4 - OBSERVE ==
 * == Stage 5 - REFLECT ==
 * == Stage 5 - REFLECT ==