EDLD 5301-Week 4

For this particular Action Research Plan, I have partnered with my CTE Director, David Berrier. Mr. Berrier has a passion for students and their future career development. He is very innovative and listens to his teachers for furthering that innovation. Since he has an open door policy we sat in his office at the Administration building and discussed the options available. We have talked a lot about elective choices and whether we are meeting our student’s needs. At this time we both feel we are meeting those needs but we are not sure that the students are adequately taking the opportunities that they are being offered. We can offer a lot of different types of electives but then does it get to be almost a marketing ploy where the best advertisers get the students? Shouldn’t the students take classes they are interested in as a future career? The real Action Research Plan is to learn ways to encourage the students to really explore careers now through the classes that are being offered. The main change we decided on was just this instead of trying to change the selection process instead emphasize ways to teach and inform students better about what is available to them as electives and eventually future careers.