The beginning of week 2 caused some stress for me. The thought of having to "pick" a topic this early in our course caused me to draw a blank. I wanted my research to have meaning for myself and the people and students that I work with. However, I did not want to pull a topic out of thin air just for the sake of having something to say I am researching; rather, I wanted to learn new information that would help me improve my job performance and benefit my campus and even perhaps, beyond.
After talking with my principal and people that I work closely with, they helped me realize that I have already began my wonderings about how I can, as an instructional coach, help teachers become more confident with their science instruction. I have also been toying with some new ideas about modeling effective instruction in the science classroom and this next year, our district has plans to implement a tiered professional development system to help "grow" science teachers that would help me in my research. The research lies before me and I am excited to get started. It was such a relief to make this realization....the rest of the week's assignment fell into place after I was able to decide on my action research topic.
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