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PDQ (Professional Development QuickTips)
Teachers as Researchers
Category:
Classroom Research
Tip:
Much of traditional educational research is not useful for most classroom teachers, but research
that teachers conduct themselves is very useful. As a professional developer, you can facilitate
this research process with teachers:
- Help them decide on a focus or problem that they would like to reflect on. It could be their teaching practice or a curriculum area that they are uncomfortable teaching.
- Collect data or evidence over a specified time period that will help the teacher examine what he or she is trying to accomplish. Evidence could be videos of classroom practice, samples of student work, and interviews of students and colleagues.
- Analyze the evidence or data by looking at themes or patterns. One way to do this is to create a database to input evidence under specific labels. Examples could be pictures, student work, average test scores, etc.
- Record what a teacher found from the evidence in a word processed document stored in his or her portfolio with the steps to take for improvement or an explanation why something worked.
Submitted by:
Barbara Bray
Next Tip:
Teaching to Varied Proficiencies
PDQ Coordinator: Barbara Bray, President, My eCoach
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