The Power of Questions
Whether you are a preservice, inservice or veteran teacher, through the inquiry and reflection of teacher research you can learn about your practice and your students and gain a deeper understanding of the potential that the inquiry process has to support powerful student learning.
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The Instructor's Guide provides a suggested framework that outlines each class session, complete with detailed assignments and rubrics for assessment. Teacher research is a tool that can help you continue to learn throughout your career. Pursuing your own questions has the potential to foster genuine understandings of educational methods, re-invigorate your teaching practices, and re-shape your curriculum for the benefit of your students.The Power of Questions makes connections between investigating issues related to your practice and designing research curricula for your students. Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich carefully illustrate and scaffold the research process for you by breaking it into smaller steps. They cite examples of real teacher researchers' studies as they provide advice, study questions, and exercise that help you: formulate a research question design a study investigate prior research on the subject choose the best tools for collecting evidence analyze your findings and apply them to the issues and dilemmas in your teaching life share what you've learned with others make research a regular part of your practice. Unlike any other book on teacher research, Falk and Blumenreich provide you with analogous research projects for your students that support a classroom environment of inquiry and discovery. For teacher educators, an accompanying online instructor's manual includes rubrics to support and assess teacher professional development.Whether you are a preservice, inservice or veteran teacher, through the inquiry and reflection of teacher research you can learn about your practice and your students and gain a deeper understanding of the potential that the inquiry process has to support powerful student learning.
Ch. 1Making the case for teacher research1Ch. 2Putting teaching research into a context9Ch. 3Wonderings to be done - finding your question21Ch. 4Standing on the shoulders of those who came before41Ch. 5The research design - developing an action plan for your inquiry60Ch. 6Data collection tools91Ch. 7Making sense of your learnings - analyzing data115Ch. 8Telling your story133Ch. 9Launching inquiries from children's questions161Ch. 10Curiosity - the secret to wisdom175App. 1Recommended teacher research articles196App. 2Good sources for Website evaluation criteria198App. 3Handy little guide to referencing in APA format199App. 4Sample literature review206App. 5Related resources215
