Action+Research+Plan

These are the areas on which I focused in my Action Research Plan:

__**Problem:**__ Students at O'Gorman High School usually have difficulty accessing, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating (R.I.5) Church documents, in particular encyclicals.

__**Question:**__ Will integrating 21st Century Skills and Tools in teaching the Catholic Social Teaching (CST) principles improve student achievement on standard Reading, Indicator 5? Specifically, can I engage my students with a global theme and increase awareness of their role in applying CST principles?

__**Plan:**__ Integrate 21st Century Skills and Tools into my lesson plans. Administer pre and post tests over the standard to gauge student understanding. Use formative assessment in the classroom, over the course of the teaching and after the lesson to check understanding. I plan to create two lesson plans that incorporate the use of technology tools by the students to specifically address global justice issues.


 * __Reflection:__** My objective is for students to be able to access and analyze Church documents in order to synthesize the information into applications for social justice issues.

__**Implications for Future Work:**__ My students' scores on the post test improved greatly. I will continue to use and adapt the strategies I have learned as I feel that they were effective.