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Most of all, teacher research is a gift: to the profession, in helping us change the way we see old problems and bringing us new solutions; to research communities, in showing us new research strategies and how to take risks in writing up research; to ourselves, in reminding us of the energy and passion in learning that made us teachers in the first place. It is a gift that we're all working hard for...
from Living the Questions
Teachers know that the research they undertake in their own classrooms is a powerful tool for many purposesâ€"from finding the best way to teach a subject, to organizing student work and activities, to assessing children's learning. And like traditional approaches to inquiry, teacher research is more than a way of thinking: it involves specific procedures and practices that lead to positive changes in teaching and learning.
Living the Questions is the definitive resource for ! the methods of teacher research. With a consistent tone that i! s eloque nt and passionate, this guide for novice and veteran teacher-researchers will challenge and inspire educators at all levels to see the potential for inquiry in their lives.
Part research text, part contributed collection, Living the Questions includes:
- research strategies illustrated in hands-on workshops;
- sample projects from twenty-eight contributing teachers in grades K-college;
- guidelines for setting up schoolwide inquiry groups;
- practical strategies for managing time and resources in research projects;
- innovative ideas for enlisting students and colleagues as co-researchers;
- ethical considerations in teacher research projects;
- advice from veteran teacher-researchers on building regional and national support networks;
- suggestions for getting research published;
- internet resources for teacher-researchers;
- the role of administrators in fostering teacher research.
Teacher! s, school inquiry groups, and professors of research courses in education will find Living the Questions a rich source of ideas and processes for developing inquiry skills. This book will also help educators at all levels understand how and why teacher research is transforming the lives of so many teachers.
Groundbreaking when first published, The Art of Classroom Inquiry has become the classic book on the subject, helping tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers discover successful ways to conduct research in their classrooms. Thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and technologies, this revised edition continues to show teachers how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies - interviewing and notetaking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, hand! s-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more.
Hubbard and Power have worked for 15 years with teacher-researchers from across the country. In The Art of Classroom Inquiry they give teacher research a human face, from preservice and beginning teachers at work in their classrooms to veterans with suggestions and examples to share. The stories of individual growth demonstrate why and how teacher research is transforming the ways teachers view themselves and their classrooms. And each chapter of this book shows how to get there, including:
- getting started - deciding what to investigate and how to frame questions
- designing the research to fit your area of investigation
- gathering data in the midst of teaching
- making sense of that mountain of data
- reviewing the literature and the implications of others' research on your findings
- converting research for sharing with a wider audie! nce
- creating a teacher-research network and support g! roup.
