Sentences with phrase «own teacher research»

Current programs include COSEE Coastal Trends director and lead PI, Learning Science through Research, a program for middle and high school students which features science conducted at HPL, and the Chesapeake Teacher Research Fellowship program, a 7 week summer research experience for secondary school teachers.

May 3, 2017 - LIVERMORE, California — Register now for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) 2017 Teacher Research Academy (TRA).

Engaging in teacher research, reading professional periodicals and texts, and regularly reflecting on our practice has helped us adapt to the ever - changing educational climate.

Warikoo, N. «Outcomes of Reduced Class Size in High School Math Classrooms,» in Taking Action with Teacher Research, ed.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

Justin Smith, founder and CEO of EducationalAppStore.com believes teachers should embrace technology in the classroom: «It's super important that teachers research the educational apps they're going to use before bringing them into the classroom.

Bill Lucas Director of the Centre for Real - World Learning and Professor of Learning at the University of Winchester shares his experience of teacher research groups to divulge his discoveries of fostering rich environments for learning.

Teacher research demonstrates the detrimental effects on English learners of replacing authentic literacy assessments with standardized assessments designed primarily for purposes of accountability.

Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the school.

In this week's Voice of Experience, educator Brenda Dyck examines the place teacher research has in the classroom and how it can develop into a kind of «dance» between students, teachers, and learning.

The goal is an affordable system for conducting teacher research that teachers would actually consume, that would address both the implementation challenges and the high transaction costs for researchers and practitioners in creating such research.

During lesson study, a group of teachers researches and writes a lesson plan on a particular theme.

That is what teacher research teams do; they provide a place to lean and space to explore and expand.

This year I challenge you to join (or perhaps start) a teacher research team.

For years, in preparation for our teacher research team meetings, I selected a piece of student writing that spoke to me.

My third and most important tool is my teacher research team.

Diversity is essential in creating strong and dynamic teacher research teams.

Then we examine teacher research as a form of teacher leadership.

Our concerns led us to engage in teacher research examining this assessment system and its impact on our English Learner students.

The final report on the 2003 - 2004 Students as Allies project included details about the five sites; the collaborative process through which we designed surveys that included a common core of questions along with school - specific questions developed by student - teacher research teams; and how students became involved in the project, gathered and analyzed their data, presented their findings at public «summits,» and then turned them into topics for discussion and action.

Many of these articles relate to teacher research in an urban education setting or school reform experiences.

Working Toward Equity: Resources and Writings from the Teacher Research Collaborative.

In our classes, pre-service teachers research, create resource sites for, and present on various apps and programs, being sure to tie them into the curriculum (for instance, this site that discusses several apps to support language arts and this one that explores the use of iPads for inclusive education).

The new Chartered College of Teaching is committed to «enabling teachers to connect with rigorous research and evidence»; The Education Endowment Foundation's Research Schools, a focal - point for evidence - based practice in their regions, are expanding in numbers; and researchED, a grass - roots, teacher - led organisation, aims to improve teacher research literacy and to «dismantle myths in education».

Teacher research as professional development for P - 12 educators in the USA.

According to Zeichner, to improve their learning and practices, teachers should become teacher researchers, conduct self - study research, and engage in teacher research groups.

Schools minister Nick Gibb has slammed academics refusing to engage with researchED, an international project that aims to make teachers research - literate.

Teacher research furnishes opportunities to question the increasing presence of top - down control over the teaching profession (Kuzmic, 2006).

The approach to teacher research within a collegial study group involved several steps / activities.

«I do think we are still in a space of trying to do the research... as these systems are being implemented, making sure that we are following up on things like alignment between the different measures,» said Laura Goe, a research scientist in the Learning and Teacher Research Center of the N.J. - based Educational Testing Service.

Thinking even further outside the box, we might envision sections of school libraries transformed into teacher research centers — digital repositories supervised by research librarians trained to help teachers consume scholarship.

Early Childhood Teacher Research: From Questions to Results, New York: Routledge.

Drawing on her deep knowledge of early childhood practice, Castle shows us how to do exemplary teacher research from start to finish, and tells us why it is so essential to high quality teaching and learning.»

-- Patricia A. Crawford, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Pittsburgh «In clear language, Castle leads students and educators through familiar but unique territory of practice in early childhood education into solidly based teacher research.

Her clear guidelines and engaging examples bring early childhood teacher research to life for new and continuing educators working with children from birth though age eight.

The experiences within the Fellowship aim to increase the level of expertise and preparation of Teacher Leader Fellows to lead job - embedded professional development; coach peers to improve their teaching practice, and guide teacher research groups to examine key issues within their classrooms and schools.

Thinking and Speaking for Ourselves In this article, we have drawn on the Teachers Learning Collaborative to illustrate the potential of teacher research for informing our field, as well as to demonstrate a particular model within which such research can be accomplished.

First, the topic suggested for the address was teacher research.

Members of our group are actively engaged in teacher research, though in various stages, from defining questions to collecting data, to analyzing and going public with what we have learned.

: A Moment of Teacher Research

Choosing Your Voice: Narratives from the Classroom Communing with Chaos: The Real Process of Teacher Research Inside the Kingdom: The Children and Their Classroom Making the Classroom Culture Visible: The Collective Voice of the Teacher Researcher «Did You Write Down All of My Words?»

During Year 1, these sessions focused on in - depth study of the content standards, examination of current teaching practices in light of the standards, and teacher research on the standards in action.

They also began meeting with the original Book Club Teacher Research Group, where Laura was active.

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An interview with Diane Ravitch (Article available to the public) FEATURES Research Report: Performance Pay for Teachers Research on merit pay has provided some answers — but also has identified questions that still need to be addressed.

Her scholarship centers on early childhood education, performance assessment, teacher education, and teacher research.

In 1992, he received a grant from the DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund to develop a national project of teacher research groups in twelve cities across the U.S..

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