I am a special
education teacher in a large urban, economically depressed, state-run district
in northern New Jersey. I decided to get my Master’s Degree in Education,
Media, Design, and Technology, what follows is the journey of the Action
Research Project I had to complete as part of my course work.
My Action
Research Project focused on improving engagement of students with special needs
to write successful simple sentences utilizing digital storytelling. This
quantitative study utilized pre and post surveys to determine if digital
storytelling would improve the students’ ability to use capitals and correct
ending punctuation marks while writing simple sentences. The literature review
determined that digital storytelling did increase motivation, engagement, writing
skills, storytelling skills, grammar, punctuation, and built the students’
confidence. The results determined that the students with special needs did
improve their ability to engage with the material and produced quality simple
sentences with capitals and ending punctuation marks. In conclusion, digital
storytelling had a positive impact on the students’ engagement and ability to
write simple sentences.
I will try to
share my project as a published paper in the Council for Exceptional Children’s
journal, Teaching Exceptional Children. Teaching Exceptional Children is published
six times a year, and features research-to-practice information and
materials for classroom use, as well as current issues in special education
teaching and learning.
Image Source: Council for Exceptional Children's Website
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