Everything is going great with my action research project. I gave out my first official "Teaching Assistant of the Month" award at the end of September. She was truly beaming when I announced her name as the recipient. I then decided to print another copy of her award and put it in a picture frame along with another smaller frame underneath with her picture in it. I hung these both in our front office. She was very excited about this as well. Our next award will be given on October 20th.
Another thing that I am very excited about is my new implementation of a Google Doc. This thing is amazing!! It was recommded by a fellow student under comments -- the great power of networking and helping each other out. Before, to submit staff commendations, the teachers had to type in on a pre-made document, e-mail it to me, and then I would save it to a file on my computer. Then as the award date approached I would print them all out and tally them up to see which staff received the most commendations. Now I created a google doc form with very simple and easy to use check boxes. The teachers just click a couple of boxes and click on Submit and they are done. Then, not only can I view them all, but I can get a summary of all of the compiled data and it clearly shows me in bar graph form and percentages who has the most commendations. The teachers love it! And so do I!! It is so much easier to do now for the teachers and myself.
So all in all, a great couple of weeks on my action research project!
