Interest survey and getting parents to return paperwork!!

Disclaimer:

For the sake of this blog I will be referring to my school as Eagle Academy and all students will be referred to using pseudonyms. Their pseudonyms will be revealed throughout the blog as their data is discussed.

After a crazy week or so of snow days and delays due to weather I hope that things are looking up and this research can get underway! I have now gotten all consent forms sent home (but still waiting on a couple to trickle back in), had all students sign the assent form, and given the Writing Interest Survey to all students in the class. I chose to have every student in my class do these three things so that I can include any of them in my final research.


I would love to offer you the results of my Writing Interest Survey but in the hustle and bustle of leaving my classroom today I left them sitting on my desk. Tomorrow I will post an update that discusses the information I learned about my students. One student's responses to the survey did catch my eye while I circulated the room and left me feeling very interested about how he will do throughout the course of my research. I will refer to this student as Parker. Parker is one of my special needs students but is cognitively very high performing. I consider him a "reluctant writer" because any time a writing assignment is assigned he clams up and presents himself as a behavior problem. He gets "angry" and claims that he is "bored" to try and avoid completing the work. On the writing survey you would think that Parker loved writing. He said that he thinks there should be more writing time in school, he said he enjoys writing in his free time, etc. I will post a picture of Parker's responses along with my update tomorrow. I have a feeling I will be keeping a close eye on how this process impacts him.......fingers crossed we see some improved behavior and some AMAZING writing!