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Learning Episode
REFLECTIVE
To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be
TEACHING
sure to read through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS
2 Resource Teacher’s class. Note all the information you will need and tasks you will
need to do before working on this episode.

Target Your Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Learning Episode, I must be able to:
 be familiar about action research as a reflective teacher.
 underscore the importance of doing action research.

Clarify Your Task

Doing Action Research: An Overview
Every teacher is an action researcher. Everyone can do it. Teachers and students can do it
together.
This episode focuses on doing action research as one of the roles of the teacher. Every
teacher should take interest to know how students learn, wants to make innovations in the
curriculum and desires to improve teaching practice. In order to achieve these, a teacher has to
do action research on the everyday practical problems. These problematic situations and
observed discrepancies emerge between what is intended and what actually occurs in the
classroom.

Sou
rce: Kate Herbert-Smith IRIS connect
 There is a general agreement among action research community that action research is
about ACTION: taking action to improve practice and RESEARCH: finding things out and
coming to a new understanding that create new knowledge.
Action research is not new. It dates back to the time of John Dewey in 1920 when he
introduced the idea of inquiry. This was followed by Collier, 1945; Lewin, 1949; Corey, 1953
and many others who came later. Schon introduced the notion of action research as a habit of
continuing inquiry. Inquiry begins with situations that are problematic, confusing, uncertain and
conflicting, and so does Action Research.
It was Stephen Corey (1953) who defined Action Research as the process through which
practitioners like teachers, study their own practice to solve their personal or professional
practical problems. Further on, John Illiot in 1993 clarified that action research is concerned with
everyday practical problems experienced by the teachers, rather than the theoretical problems
defined by pure researchers.
Action research is grounded on the reality of the school, classroom, teachers and students.
Sometime it is labelled as a Teacher Action Research (TAR) but is popularly known simply as
Action Research (AR).
Action Research is a process that allows teachers to study their own classrooms, schools
and educational setting in order to understand them better and to improve their quality and
effectiveness. The Process of observation, reflection and inquiry lead to action that makes a
difference in teaching and learning. It bridges doing (practice) and learning (study) and reflection
(inquiry).

Participate and Assist

You must have experienced in your past subjects, doing some activities or accomplishing
tasks similar to an action research. These are activities that required you to do Reflection and
Make Action or the other way around. Schon (1987) distinguishes Reflection in Action or
Reflection on Action as two different things.
Perhaps your mentor teacher has already done an Action Research. Now is the
opportunity for you to participate and assist in ways that you are capable of doing.
Here is what you will do.
Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles by Teachers in the Field
1. Make a library or on-line search of the different Completed Action Research Titles
Conducted by Teachers.
2. Enter the list in the matrix similar to the one below.
3. Submit your list of five (5) Titles of Completed Action Research Studies to your
mentor as reference.
 Name: Mikee Marvida
BSED Social Studies 4-1

Inventory of Sample Action Research Conducted by Teachers

List of Completed Action Research

Author/Authors
Titles
Ex. Differentiated Instruction in Teaching Mary Joy Olicia
English for Grade Four Classes

1. The Effects Of Online Distant Roscila F. Musico

Learning Modalities In Teaching
Araling Panlipunan 9 In The New
Normal
2. Effectiveness of Blended Learning Dona Pilar C. Gonzaga
in Teaching Araling Panlipunan
3. Learning Styles And Attitudes Of Nelson G. Agoyaoy
First Year High School Students In
Araling Panlipunan I: Basis For An
Action Plan
4. The Effectiveness of Flipped Mariel Gia Gojo Cruz
Classroom Environment in
Improving Learners' Academic
Achievement in Araling Panlipunan
an Action Research
5. Technology Based Instructional Jocelyn Garcia
Materials In Araling Panlipunan:
Its Acceptability

Congratulations!!! You have done a good job. By doing so, you have assisted
your mentor and together you will journey towards becoming an action researcher.

Notice
Based on your activity on Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles, let’s find
out what you have noticed by answering the following questions.
Questions My Answer
1. What have you noticed about the action 1. Identified problem to be solved in title no.1
research titles? Do the action research (AR)  Effects brought by online learning
titles imply problems to be solved? Yes _✅_ modalities in teaching AP 9 in this new
No_____ normal education.
2. Identified problem to be solved in title no. 2
If YES, identify the problems from the title  Effectiveness of blended learning in
you have given. Answer in the space teaching AP subject.
provided. 3. Identified problem to be solved in title no. 3
 Learning styles and attitudes of the 1st
year high school students in AP subject.
4. Identified problem to be solved in title no. 4
 Effectiveness of flipped classroom in
improving students’ academic
achievement in AP Subject.
5. Identified problem to be solved in title no. 5
 Acceptability of technology based
instructional materials in AP subject.
2. What interpretation about action research Title of the Action Research:
can you make out of your answer in Question The Attitudes and Learning Interest towards
No. 1? Araling Panlipunan Subject Among High School
Students.

3. Write the Title and your interpretation of From the title, I think, the study
the study from the title. Will identify the level of interest and their
attitudes in learning Social Studies subject
especially the Secondary Students.

4. What do you think did the author/s do with I think the author/s conducted such research
the identified problem as presented in their about their titles to know it further throughout
titles? the problem and make some conclusion and
expect recommendation from expertise.

Analyze
Action research seems easy and familiar. Since teaching seems to be full of problematic
situations and that the teacher has a responsibility of finding solution for everyday problems
school, hence teachers should do action research. This is an exciting part of being a teachers, a
problem solver!
Let us continue to examine and analyze what you have noticed and interpreted in
previous activity.
Key Questions My Answer
Choose from the options given. You may check more
than one answer
1. From what source do you think, Choices:
did the authors identify the ____ Copied from research books
problems of their action research? _✅_ From daily observation of their teaching practice
____ From difficulties they observed of their learners
____ From their own personal experience
____ From the told experiences of their co-teachers

2. What do you think is the Choices:

teacher’s intention in conducting _✅_ To find a solution to the problematic situation
the action research? ____ To comply with the requirement of the principal
____ To improve teaching practice
____ To try out something, if it works
____ To prove oneself as better than the others

3. What benefit do you get as a Choices:

student in FS 2 in understanding ____ Prepare me for my future job
and doing action research? ____ Get good grades in the course
____ Learn and practice being an action researcher
____ Improve my teaching practice
_✅_ Exposure to the realities in the teaching profession
____ Become a better teacher everyday

4. In what ways, can you assist _✅_ By co-researching with my mentor

your mentor in his/her Action ____ By assisting in the design of the intervention
Research activity? ____ By assisting in the implementation of the AR
____ By jus watching what is being done

Reflect
Based on the readings you made and the previous activities that you have done,
1. What significant ideas or concepts have you learned about action research?
I learned that doing an action research is quite hard but interesting. Doing an action
research can help future teacher understand what is happening in the classroom and identify
ways to improve teaching and learning. With this they well be prepared for the challenges might
they taken to. That’s why teachers are making action research determine the problems and able
to solve it by making action, evaluation and reflection.

2. Have you realized that there is a need to be an action researcher as a future teacher?
Yes __✅__ No_____. If yes, complete the sentence below.

I realized that as a future teacher, I must be an action researcher in so that I can determine
the problems needs to be addressed and able to solve it. I believe there is a step in doing an
action research and that was in the following:

1. Plan a change;
2. Take action to enact the change;
3. Observe the process and consequences of the change;
4. Reflect on the process and consequences;
5. Act, observe, & reflect again and so on.

Write Action Research Prompts

OBSERVE

From what teaching principles of theories can this problem be anchored?

 I have observed and notice that Action Research begins with a problem or a problematic
situation.
Write an example of a problematic situation that you have observed and noticed
As I’ve observed especially in online classroom setting some of the student are
not able to attend virtual meet and also pass the activities and also I noticed that there
atleast one teacher also didn’t go well with the class and forget it’s schedule. This
problem needs to solve both by students and teachers.

REFLECT

What have I realized? What do I hope to achieve?

I realized that for every teaching learning problem, there is a solution.
Write a probable solution to the problematic situation above
 Probably the best solution for this problem is to have face to face classes. If it is not
granted the teacher and student should be cooperate to work on together. There is need a
collaboration between students and teachers to be able to have productive results. And to be able
to learn the students and teachers must be responsible enough.

PLAN

What strategies, activities, innovations can I employ to improve the situation or solve the
problem?
As a future action researcher, I can plan for an appropriate intervention like

Conducting a training for the teachers that will help them to enhance their
profession and personal competencies. And also it will increase students’ performance in
return. The learning activities of the students should also be monitored by them

ACT

If I conduct or implement my plan, what can be its title?

 If I will implement my doable plan in the future, my title would be
Identify The Impact of teacher’s Competencies towards Students’ Academic Performance
in distant learning.

Work on my Artifacts
Your artifact will be an Abstract of a completed action research.