Name

Section/year
EPISODE 2
Embedding Action Research for Reflective Teaching
PARTICIPATE AND ASSIST
Inventory of Sample Action research conducted Teacher
List of Completed Action research Author/Authors
NOTICE
Based on your activity on Making a List of Completed Action Research Titles, let’s find out
what you have noticed by answering questions.
Questions My answer
1. What have you noticed about the action 1.
research titles? Do the action research (AR)
titles imply problems too be solved? Yes ___ 2.
No____ 3.

If YES, Identify the problems from the title 4.

you have given. Answer in the space provided.
5.

2. What interpretation about action research Title of the Action Research:

can you make out of your answer in Question
No. 1?

3. Write the title and your interpretation of the From the title, I think, the study ….
study from the title.

4. What do you think did the author/s do with I think the author/s did …..
the identified problem as presented in their
titles?
ANALYZE
Key Questions
1. From what source do you think,
did the authors identify the problems
of their action research?
2. What do you think is the teacher’s
intention in conducting the action
research?
3. What benefit do you get as a
student in FS 2 in understanding and
doing action research?
4. In what ways can you assist your
mentor in his/her Action Research
Activity?
My Answer
Choose from the options given. You may check more
than one answer
Choices:
____Copied from research book
____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.
Choices:
____To find a solution to the problematic situations
____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
Choices:
____Prepare me for my future job
____Get good grades in the school
____Learn and practice being an action researcher
____Improve my teaching practice
____Exposure to the realities in the teaching profession
____Become a better teacher everyday
____By co-researching with my mentor
____By assisting in the design of the intervention
____By assisting in the implementation of the AR
____By just watching hat is being done
REFLECT
Based on the reading 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 ____________________________________________________________
2. Have you realized that there is a need to be action researcher as a future teacher?
Yes ___ No ___. If yes, complete the sentence below.
I realized that ____________________________________________________________

WRITE ACTION RESEARCH PROMPTS

OBSERVE
From what teaching principles of theories can this problem be anchored?
 I observed and noticed that Action Research begins with a problem or a problematic
situation.
Write an example of a problematic situation that have you observe and noticed.
________________________________________________________________________
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 problematic solution to the problematic situation above __________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

PLAN
What strategies, activities, innovation, can I employ to improve the situation or solve the
problem?
 As a future action researcher I can plan for an appropriate intervention like ___________
________________________________________________________________________
ACT
If I conduct or implement my plan, what can be its title?
 If I implement y doable plan in the future, my title would be _______________________
________________________________________________________________________
CHECK FOR MASTERY

Direction: Choose the best answer.

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