3. We need a plan!

Hi, Lorraine again.
I'm sitting here trying to navigate all the areas on the web site so I am familiar with them.

Re the PLAN- it's a bit like a chicken and egg situation- I have decided to focus on Leadership and I wonder does the working title inform the plan or the plan dictate what the title will finally be. A bit of both I think. I will refine as I go along.
What are others doing?

def chicken and egg.

You dont have to make a final decsion until the end.

i need to know what the first steps look like

Planning is a great thought but sometimes it is hard to get started especially when there are so many things happening at the same time. I am thinking about my proposal at the moment. I still have to meet with my advocate to make sure that my topic is viable. I will just have to keep on plodding on and wish for the best.

I have had difficulty meeting with my proposed advocate, so hope to do so this coming week. Until we can meet and discuss/identify the way to go, I'm forstalled! I do not want to rush off in the wrong direction and waste time, but I am frustrated by the delay.

Have we got a deadline of 2 November to get this plan in or is there a little flexibility here? Has anyone got there's in yet?

Ann

Hi Ann,
You'rse not alone. I have not had any contact from my supervisor and my original topic had to be changed because my school advocate thought it would be better to do something different. So you're no alone but don't despair just try your best.

Mavi

Thanks Mavis - It's good to know I'm not the only one who feels miles behind at the offset! I have also taken note of Ian's comments below. Being self employed and mostly involved in diagnostic assessments I suddenly feel very isolated as everyone else seems to be in a school with what I perceive to be oceans of 'research material' available.

Are you - or anyone else out there - going to the PATOSS Conference in Bristol on 24-26 November & would like to meet up?

Thanks for support, Ann

Hi Ann,
I have just read your introduction and saw you did the same course as myself - Dip with Dyslexia Action. I did mine about 4 years ago and decided to transfer credits. I completed hopefully past the SEN and Inclusion module with Middlesex last year to enable career development. I am currently working in a state school as an SEN teacher but want to be a Inclusion Coordinator as I found that many of the children with dyslexia didn't fall into the SEN register due to them being average or above, and not years behind by default.

I have replied to you on conversation 2 and have just seen what you have written above, but have thought about using some of your time reading up about methodogy? Is it worth your while putting down some of your thoughts and your advocates to explore differences? Be careful not to name the person or connections.

I am listening - Marion

Pleas be patient.

There are about 40 peple to look at. You are supposed to be handing me plans. After the plan arrives on November 2nd I can allocate tutors of which there are about 10.

You are supposed to be working on your own ideas and not using tutors to create them for you. We have a year to refine your project and it cant all be done in the first 8 weeks.

Please be patient.

Sorry, Ian. Panic set in! This distance learning concept takes some getting used to. I will do my best to get a plan in to you this week.
Ann

There is a format for the plan- How is it that some people have not used it? It says above there is a template (and its in the module guide).

Methods and procedures.
Please do not confuse methodology and methods(procedures). The module guide outlibnes the difference.

Keep the questions simple. The simple model (see recent update) is to select a few stratgies in the literature, implemnet and research the effcet.


Stay clear of the big research questions.


Stay clear of confusing empirical research questions with questions decoded by analysing the literature and research already published.

Ian can you please confirm that you have received my plan via email. Marion

Ian, thank you for the feedback. Marion

Hi I have submitted my plan and realise I need to add to my list of authors on the subject of raise attainment in writing especially boys. I orginally choose Shirley Clarke, Ros Wilson and Roger Black (AFL is part of the development of teachers and leaders in my researcg group). Can I use any authors? Research reports and DCSF reports? NCSL research data?
Hope that makes sense
Tahnks Lesley

Thanks.

Any authors? yes but there are good ones and bad ones. You have to show in depth knowledge. You have to show your analysis, evaluation and criticality.

Questions might be:
Those that can be answered by research.
Those that can be answered by discussion and choice
These that can answered by literature and policy.
 

the research plan assumes that you are listing "those that can be answered by research.". Those that can be answered by discussion and choice and
These that can answered by literature and policy would be answered in the literature review, where you show your in dpeth knowledge.

Hi Everybody,

I found 'Epstein' a good link for partnerships. Marion

Good sharing

Eg as in
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/sixtypes.htm


A great model. You can critique in the literature. You can then use as a conceptual framework to evaluate. You can develop your own version.

Thanks to all those that met the dealine of November 2nd.You have passed the first hurdle.

You will appreciate I have been inundated by 40 files marked "Plan". It would help if you added names and used these as filenames eg Smithplan.


Some more refining is required by some. Soon we will discuss literture and literature reviewing but you should have your search words ready and use google

Hi Ian

I have submitted the plan, if you have any problems then please let me know. It is saved as word 2007 so let me know if you need it saved as an earlier version.

thanks

Thanks to you too Ian for the clarifications in the current email. After handing in my research plan, I was really worried if it made sense. I will continue to fine tune it.
Sharon

I have just been to a workshop ran by National Strategies 'Achievement for All' project about how to undertake structured conversations with parents. It became clear that these should be undertaken by the class teachers. This has a big impact on my proposed idea for my dissertation to act on perceptions that parents have and building up a trust to involve them in a partnership.

I have to now decide whether I only concentrate on the triad partnership of child/class teacher/intervention or whether to think of a way to involve parents.

I think I will need to discuss this with my head again. Marion

I am not sure if I undertand you but you seem to be saying you are focusing down on a specific aspect inclsuing three or possibly a fourth variable (parents). Let's us all know what you decide and why.

Ian, are we meant to be doing a self assessment? Marion

what is a self assessment? I do not understand the question

I think Marion is refering to the part that asks "why is the research important to you"