What is teacher research?
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Teacher research is a way of teaching that is natural to the
everyday life of the classroom. Teachers observe, collect data and
analyze it on a daily basis to meet the needs of their students.
Teachers often try to view classroom life through the students'
eyes, thinking about their perspectives and actions. Teacher
research is powerful and opens doors to new possibilities, allowing
once invisible aspects of the classroom to emerge and new
understandings to formulate.
What is the purpose of teacher research in our METL program?
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Teacher research gives graduate students the opportunity to take
an in depth look at their students, best practices in teaching and
assists them in developing voice as a teacher. It provides a
meaningful, hands-on experience that creates change in their
classroom practices as they act as reflective practitioners.
Teacher research is one avenue to meet the METL Goals and Five
Core Propositions of National Board. Each goal is reflected in the
work that teacher researchers do.
It is our hopes that teacher research open new eyes to the
classroom, enabling graduate students to become aware of their
practices, promote teacher leaders and encourage advocacy for
children.
What are the goals of teacher research for graduate students?
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Teacher
research will give our students the following opportunities:
- To take an in depth look at their teaching
- To ask questions
- To collect and analyze data
- To view the classroom from the child's perspective
- To become teacher leaders
- To inspire professional empowerment
- To enhance student's understandings of teaching as moral and
interpersonal work
- To support diversity
- To increase knowledge and skill in the art and craft of
teaching
- To promote an understanding of teaching as intellectual and
creative work
- To develop learning communities
What books can I read that are written by teacher researchers?
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- Imagination and Literacy: A Teacher's Search for the Heart
of Learning by Karen Gallas
- Sometimes I Can Be Anything: Power, Gender, and Identity in
a Primary Classroom by Karen Gallas
- Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban
Children by Catherine Compton-Lilly
- Regarding Children's Words: Teacher Research on Language
and Literacy by the Brookline Teacher Research
Seminar
- Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing and
Remembering by Gerald Campano
- Teaching through the Storm: A Journal of Hope by
Karen Hale Hankins
- The Girl with the Brown Crayon by Vivian
Paley
- White Teacher by Vivian Paley
- A Child's Work by Vivian Paley
- Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's
Violent Play by Jane Katch
- Jamie by Diane Parker
What resources are available on teacher research?
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- Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher
Researchers by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Power
Miller
- Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge by
Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan L. Lytle
- What Works? A Practical Guide for Teacher
Research by Elizabeth Chisseri-Strater and Bonnie S.
Sunstein
- Reclaiming the Classroom: Teacher Research as an Agency for
Change by Dixie Goswami and Peter Stillman
- The Art of Classroom Inquiry: A Handbook for
Teacher-Researchers by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda
Miller Power
- A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research by David
Hopkins
- Teacher Researchers at Work by Marion S. Maclean,
Marian M. Mohr and the National Writing Project
- Teacher Research for Better Schools by Courtney
Rogers, Betsy Sanford, Mary Ann Nocerino, and Marion Maclean
- Good Day, Bad Day: Teaching as a High Wire Act by
Ken Winograd
- gse.gmu.edu/research/tr/
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www.reading.org/association/awards/research_teacher_as_researcher.html