Teacher Research

1. Teacher Research By Sarah Mills

2. Teacher Research Reading about teacher research made me understand what it is and helped me think about what my issue was. This teacher research is anything that I struggle with that is keeping me from doing my best and stressing myself out. Working out this will help me becoming better and help me be successful in a classroom.

3. My Issue In My Work I have to things that I plan to work on: • Procrastination • Self Esteem with my work

4. My Plan • My plan to learn was at first very difficult and I wasn’t sure what I could do since I have been this way since I can remember. • First I wanted to recorded what I was doing wrong and what was keeping me from doing work. I also wanted to figure out why I was not confident with anything that I did. • Then I figured out what I could do I started making to do list and writing down when I will do them. • I would give myself a break and something fun to do when I finished the work. • Liking my work is a little more difficult and still working on boosting my self esteem.

5. Gathering Information • I made to do lists every night and wrote when I wanted to have them done. • One the nights I didn’t get this done I would write down why I didn’t get this done and how I felt with it. • I wrote down whether or not I liked what I just completed. I explained why or why not I liked it or disliked it. • I wrote down how I was feeling at all time when I had work to do. • Telling myself that my projects are good and I did a great job.

6. Literature Resources • Reading the first article I read about was with priorities. What could help is minimizing distractions. True to focus more on what is at hand. Effectively complete tasks. To optimize ability to focus have time frames and have 5 to 10 min breaks. • Jarmon, A.L.,(2009). For better or worse: Evaluating Your Study Habits. Student Lawyer.

7. Literature Resources • Procrastination makes everything else even more stressful. Procrastination has a lot to do with self linking and self competence. I learned that that self esteem has a lot to do with Procrastination and Perfectionism. • Canter, D.,(2008). Self Appraisals, Perfectionism and Academics in college Undergraduates. Virginia Commonwealth University.

8. Literature Resources • The third article I read really helped me a lot to understand. There is a relationship between Self esteem and procrastination and motivation. The higher the Self Esteem the lower the procrastination. The Lower the Self Esteem The Higher the Procrastination. • Lkich, N.,(2006). The relationship between academic esteem and academic procrastination in College Students. Truman State University.

9. Literature Research • The fourth Article said a lot about myself it said procrastinators aren't so much lollygaggers as they are people who fear failure, or success or being controlled. I have learned that when I say I cant do it I really believe I am not looking for the response I am just saying it because I am afraid I can do it and afraid of failure. • Sandberg, J., (2005). Fans of Procrastination say it boots control, Preserves Self-Esteem. Wall Street Journal.

10. What I learned with this process and how I have grown. • Just from reading the articles I learned a lot about myself and I still have a lot to work on to delete procrastination. I learned that the reason I procrastinate is because of my self esteem. This is very hard for me because I have very low self esteem. My bigger problem now is working on that and then procrastination will get better in time. I have been able to work on it a little, but it has been very hard. I am learning this is not easy. I was hoping to grow right away and try to fix, but I have learned that is it going to take awhile. I still would like to continue what I have been doing and see how I can better myself next semester. I call this process the start to my research. It has helped me identify what I need to do for myself to get better.

11. What I learned Cont. • This was a really hard subject for because not only do I have low self esteem in schooling I have it in my life with images and I am so hard on myself. I want to make myself better to help other students who are hard on themselves. I want to make a difference in their lives when no one could do that for me. I really hope that I can make the steps to make myself better it is going to be difficult, but the word I have to have is believe.