Description
The best-selling Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research offers a clear, step-by-step description of the classroom research process. Using actual teacher voices and real-life examples, as well as advocating collaborative teacher inquiry, it is popular both for it’s authenticity and inviting style. This new edition now also addresses: the link between action research and related designs for professional learning such as lesson study and teacher rounds the link between action research and teacher evaluation using practitioner inquiry for Common Core implementation ethical issues in classroom research. Nancy Fichtman Dana is currently Professor of Education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and has been studying practitioner inquiry for the last twenty years. During this time, she has developed and taught classes on practitioner research for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students, coached the practitioner research of numerous educators from various districts across the nation, as well as published nine books and over 50 book chapters and articles in professional journals focused on teacher and principal professional development and practitioner inquiry. Forward to the Third Edition Forward to the Second Edition Forward to the First Edition Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Website for Professional Development Facilitators and Course Instructors How to Use the Inquiry Books About the Authors 1. Teacher Inquiry Defined What is Teacher Inquiry? What is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry and Teacher Professional Growth What Evidence Exists that Teacher Inquiry is Worth Doing? What is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry and Differentiated Instruction? What is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry, Data-Driven Decision Making, and Progreess Monitoring? What Is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry and Response to Intervention? (RTI) What Is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry and Lesson Study? What Is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry and Teacher Evaluation? What Is the Relationship Between Teacher Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards? How Is Teacher Inquiry Different From What I Already Do as a Reflective Teacher? What Are Some Contexts That Are Ripe for Teacher Inquiry? How Does My Engaging in Teacher Inquiry Help Shape the Profession of Teaching? 2. The Start of Your Journey: Finding a Wondering Where Do I Begin? What Happens If I Still Cannot Locate My Wondering? 3. To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate: That Is the Question! Why Is Collaboration So Important? What Are the Possibilities for How I Might Collaborate? 4. Developing a Research Plan: Making Inquiry a Part of Your Teaching Practice What Do Data Look Like, How Do I Collect Them, and How Do They Fit Into My Work as a Teacher? When Do I Collect Data and How Much Do I Collect? 5. Considering the Ethical Dimensions of Your Work as an Inquirer What Are Some Things to Consider When Thinking About Ethics in Relationship to Practitioner Research? What is the Role of School District Research Policies in Relationship to the Inquiry process? What is the Role of University Institutional Review Boards in Relationship to the Inquiry Process? 6. Finding Your Findings: Data Analysis What Is Formative Data Analysis? What Might Formative Data Analysis Look Like? What Is Summative Data Analysis and How Do I Get Started? What Might Summative Data Analysis Look Like? 7. Extending Your Learning: The Inquiry Write-Up Why Should I Write? What Might My Writing Look Like? 8. Becoming the Best Teacher and Researcher You Can Be: Assessing the Quality of Your Own and Others’ Inquiry Why Is It Important to Assess the Quality of My Work? What Is the Difference Between Generalizability and Transferability? How Do I Go About Assessing Teacher-Research Quality and Why Is It So Difficult to Do? What Are Some Quality Indicators for Teacher Research? What Are Some Ways to Enhance Inquiry Quality? 9. The Start at the End of Your Journey: Making Your Inquiry Public Why Is It Important to Share My Work with Others? What Are Some Ways I Might Share My Work? References Index
