Week 13 Reflection

This week is the final week of inquiry implementation, but I will continue to collect data for a week post-implementation. During my first week of exercise implementation, I believed that video tape recordings would be the most useful and versatile data I collected over the weeks of exercise implementation, however, I found that my notes and reflections were equally or possibly more valuable in my research. Although my opinion of the classroom energy and involvement are not measurable, the changes and new results I notice are valuable to my research and reflects the individual attention I give my students. After looking at the data of comprehension test scores and energy rating charts, I notice that the data does not show consistent or great changes before and during the implementation of exercise. I reflected on these test scores and wondered what I can collect from these scores and any patterns I can find. I decided to turn to my notes about positive changes I am noticing after the implementation of exercise. One thing I noted was that morning work seemed to be completed more quickly on days that we exercised. I had warned students the first week of exercise implementation that we would not exercise if there was too much morning work to be completed, but never reiterated this requirement during the rest of the weeks of the implementation. I decided that I wanted to keep a numerical record of the percentage of morning work completed on days we did and did not exercise to support my noticing and provide quantitative data to show positive results linked to the implementation of exercise. I created a simple chart where I record the date and whether we exercised that day or not, how much work as assigned, and how much work was completed by 9:00 AM when we start morning routine. I have just started using this chart for this week and I'm already noticing a drastic change in the percentage of completed morning work comparing days we exercise and days we don't exercise.