Becoming a Teacher Researcher in Literacy Teaching and Learning (eBook, ePUB)

Strategies and Tools for the Inquiry Process
Redaktion: Pappas, Christine; Tucker-Raymond, Eli

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Designed to facilitate teachers' efforts to meet the actual challenges and dilemmas they face in their classrooms, Becoming a Teacher Researcher in Literacy Teaching and Learning:

• provides background information and key concepts in teacher research
• covers the "how-to" strategies of the teacher research process from the initial proposal to writing up the report as publishable or presentable work
• illustrates a range of literacy topics and grade levels
• features twelve reports by teacher researchers who have gone through the process, and their candid remarks about how activities helped (or not)
• helps teachers understand how knowledge is constructed socially in their classrooms so that they can create instructional communities that promote all students' learning.

Addressing the importance of teacher research for better instruction, reform, and political action, this text emphasizes strategies teachers can use to support and strengthen their voices as they dialogue with others in the educational community, so that their ideas and perspectives may have an impact on educational practice both locally in their schools and districts and more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136861123
• Artikelnr.: 42983044

Autorenporträt

Christine C. Pappas is Professor Emerita, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago. Eli Tucker-Raymond is Research Scientist with the Chèche Konnen Center at TERC.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part 1: Defining, Planning, and Starting Your Teacher Research
Part 1 Introduction
1. So, What Is Teacher Research Anyway?
2. Creating Your Research Questions-The First Step in Inquiry
3. Planning Your Inquiry
4. Writing a Preliminary Literature Review to Inform Your Inquiry
Part 2: Enacting, Analyzing, and Writing Up Your Inquiry
Part 2 Introduction
5. Strategies for Data Collection
6. Analysis-What do the Data Mean?
7. Writing Up Your Inquiry as an Evocative Account
Part 3: Teacher Researcher Reports
Part 3 Introduction
8. Katie Paciga's Inquiry Paper
Reading, Writing, and Sharing: The Journey to Become Kindergarten
Authors
9. Cindy Pauletti's Inquiry Paper
Word Detectives: Students Using Clues to Identify Unknown Words in
Text
10. Kristen Terstriep's Inquiry Paper
Toss Out Your Dictionaries: A Look at More Effective Vocabulary
Instruction
11. Sandra Zanghi's Inquiry Paper
Letting Their Voices Be Heard: Improving Literature Response
Participation during Read-Alouds through Small-Group Discussions
12. Tara Braverman's Inquiry Paper
What's This Word? Helping Sixth Grade Students Use Reading and
Vocabulary Strategies Independently
13. Libby Tuerk's Inquiry Paper
Let's Read: Motivating Junior High Students to Become Life-Long
Readers
14. Meg Goethals's Inquiry Paper
"Books that Have Ghetto Feelings": How Reading Workshop Increases
Inner-City Eighth-Graders' Motivation, Engagement, and Comprehension
15. Dawn Siska's Inquiry Paper
Challenging the "I Quit!" Going 'Round and 'Round with Literature
Circles in a Secondary Reading Classroom
16. Courtney Wellner's Inquiry Paper
"But This IS My Final Draft!" Making Peer Writing Conferences More
Effective for Struggling 9th Grade Students
17. Shannon Dozoryst's Inquiry Paper
Using Writing Workshop to Guide Revision
18. Nicole Perez's Inquiry Paper
Coaching as a Collaborative Process
19. Catherine Plocher's inquiry Paper
Coaching for Change in a K-8 Urban Elementary School: Building Cultures of
Collaboration and Reflective Practices
Epilogue: Further Reflections and Possibilities
Appendices
Appendix A: General Peer Conferencing Form
Appendix B: Common APA (American Psychological Association) Citing
Conventions
Appendix C: Reminders for Grammatical and Other Language Usage
Index