Action Research on Dynamic Classes

An intial plan was drawn up as a guide to carrying out the action reaserch project

1. Set up a blog to store data

2. background reading on Dynamism and Dynamic classes to be posted on the blog for the group to read.

3. Teachers to state/post what they feelin is a dymanic class

4. Questions to be agreed before teachers interview students to here their views on what is a dynamic class

5. Interviews to be posted on the blog.
6. Results to be reviewed

7. Conclusion made as to what is a dynmic class based on all the informatio posted
8. Plans made by the group as to the course of action to be taken in the classroom.

9. Teachers to put into action their enlightened view on what is a dynamic class.

Here are two quotes that were used in the first meeting on 10th March 2006,about our project at Cultura Inglesa Asa Sul, Brasilia, Brazil.

“Research, usually informal, designed for direct application to behaviour or a situation, as researched by teachers in their classroom”

Supervising Teachers, Randal and Thornton, CUP, 2001

“Action Research is a fancy way of saying let´s study what is happening in our school and decide how to make it a beter place”

Emily Calhoun, 1994.