Driving Question: How does digital collaboration affect mathematics achievement among English language learners?
At the beginning of the program, my driving question changed very little. I only ended up taking out a word. The idea was to measure and explore the effects that digital collaboration had on academic achievement and engagement. I decided to remove engagement out of the driving question in the second semester as it made my question broader and I didn’t even get to measure engagement during my action research study. Therefore, my focus has been about the same around my ELL’s. I am always welcoming new students that are just arriving from out of the U.S. with no knowledge of the English language and I hope that I can find a way to better support these students through the use of technology. So far my audience is still my students and teachers. I haven’t thought if administration is an audience since when I am writing and thinking about my project I have my students and colleagues in mind. But I think the language and the information in my research paper for example is appropriate for administration to read as well. I honestly don’t know how other teachers will react to my work if they do end up reading it but if they do I hope that they can take something from it. This is important for me because I am not the only teacher on my school site that has ELL’s and I also don’t know how other teachers feel about these students. How much attention do other teachers give them? How much support? What kind of support? This is something that worries me and if we really do want to provide equity among our students then I think that my work can provide a small insight on how we as teachers can work together to make our school a better learning environment for ALL.
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Paula
9/1/2018 08:33:47 pm
I'm surprised to read that you are the only teacher to have ELL students. If that's the case, then you should have your colleagues read your paper and start incorporating some support to the students because there will always be English learners with varying levels of the language.
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