Action research is a formative way for educators and administrators to define problems in the education system and create a beneficial change for their students based off of collaborative data and research. Generally, action research is reviewed by a leadership team who assess the situation and comes up with an action plan to be implemented by a group of teachers or the school as a whole and that is supported by administrators.
I believe that I can use action research in my course and that it can be beneficial to help me find ways to review data on journalism as a career for my students despite newspapers being a dying breed and there being a greater amount of convergence media. With this, I’d like to adjust my teachings to help students with a future career. I believe that action research does not necessarily need to be for a behavioral or academic success, but for the success of the well-rounded student.
Ideally, if I were to research this topic for my courses, I would like to get with journalism professionals and other journalism educators to define the problem of preparing students for a career in journalism with the ever-changing media methods. With this action research, I’d like to create a plan to benefit the students and change my teaching to prepare them for their future careers. This past summer I attended a conference in Phoenix, and this was a problem that we discussed. We all agreed that we faced an uphill battle for teaching our students for the future, I think if I met with some of the other teachers with the same type of demographics, that we could create a formative action research plan and implement new criteria and adjust our ways of teaching to benefit the students.
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