You will identify one area related to diversity that you are experiencing in your school placement and conduct a mini inquiry study that will include identifying a critical question, conducting research/annotated bibliography, collecting data, and writing/presenting a summary paper. The process of thinking about a critical question and strategy for collecting data to address your question, will lay the foundation for the critical question you may want to integrate into your Work Sample in your general methods course.
I. Getting Started: blog post -- DUE: 9/12/12
- How do you see diversity reflected in your school placement?
III. Submit Your Proposal Draft -- DUE 9/26/12
What area of student diversity would you like to address in your placement?
Explore Your School Context:
Listening to Your Setting
...MEANINGFUL IN OUR CURRENT LIFE AND PRACTICE
Problematizing: learning to move from broad concerns, wonderings and areas of interest to a focused question for study by examining your current teaching practice and setting.
Formulate a Critical Question [CQ] [handout or link below]
Make a copy of the following G-doc, give me access azboudreau@gmail.com, and start working through the prompts:
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eZSJOly1S0BrY0VgyfLmtWgybgMiqbrqFSAq09D1zl0/edit
Establish a Critical Colleague Relationship Identify a person who can be your critical colleague throughout the action research process over the next few weeks. A critical colleague is someone who:
- is willing to discuss your work sympathetically but critically
- feels comfortable working with you & negotiating the grounds of your working relationship with
- you in turn support, offering and receiving advice.
Choose an AR type that best fits your question
a. Integrated Action
b. Self-Study
c. Ethnography
d. Curriculum Analysis
...MEANINGFUL IN OUR CURRENT LIFE AND PRACTICE
Problematizing: learning to move from broad concerns, wonderings and areas of interest to a focused question for study by examining your current teaching practice and setting.
Formulate a Critical Question [CQ] [handout or link below]
Make a copy of the following G-doc, give me access azboudreau@gmail.com, and start working through the prompts:
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eZSJOly1S0BrY0VgyfLmtWgybgMiqbrqFSAq09D1zl0/edit
Establish a Critical Colleague Relationship Identify a person who can be your critical colleague throughout the action research process over the next few weeks. A critical colleague is someone who:
- is willing to discuss your work sympathetically but critically
- feels comfortable working with you & negotiating the grounds of your working relationship with
- you in turn support, offering and receiving advice.
Choose an AR type that best fits your question
a. Integrated Action
b. Self-Study
c. Ethnography
d. Curriculum Analysis
Determine Data Collection
- i.e. the evidence you use to respond to the CQ
-> Data Collection + Interpretation = ASSESSMENT
-> Data Collection + Interpretation = ASSESSMENT
"Think
of data collection and interpretation as assessment. We know that
assessment drives instruction. As teachers, we assess our student
knowledge, skills and/or conceptual development using multiple means so
that we can make wise instructional choices. This is the same process as
action research: we collect data [forms of assessment] so that we can
made wise instructional choices." pg 73
Examples of sources
of data: observation charts,
journal entries, meeting notes, lesson plans, handouts, curriculum
materials, photos, student information, interview data. [depending on your AR]
Three Broad Types of Data
1. Observations
2. Interviews
3. Artifacts/Document
III. Submit Your Proposal Draft -- DUE 9/26/12
What area of student diversity would you like to address in your placement?
What is your current CQ?
Draw out your Timeline: from now to Dec 5
Describe your research plan
- Annotated Bibliography details
Describe your strategy for collecting data:
- what you will collect?
- how you will collect it?
- how you plan to organize it?
- thoughts about how you will interpret it
Google Doc template?: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4oOlVobl_-4-iBc0H2xQfT3HsPSLi7zUnplRlroiRg/edit
IV. Work on Study
- check in: ongoing
V. Submit Final Summary -- Due Date: 12/12/12 last class
VI. Scoring Guide
__ Study Title
- check in: ongoing
V. Submit Final Summary -- Due Date: 12/12/12 last class
VI. Scoring Guide
Your final paper submission should be
based on some version of one of the Action Research templates but remember, you
can also tweak and reorganize it to fit your own needs. Think about it as
telling the story of your experience.
At a minimum, your paper should have
the following elements:
__ Study Title
__ Context for study [e.g. setting, students, your role].
This should go beyond
just facts to describe what you saw/experienced that ultimately exposed a
problem and led to your critical question
__ Critical Question [the challenge you were trying to address]
Include
any definitions of terms if needed
__ Rationale/Goal
What you hoped to achieve through this
inquiry
__ Timeline [for
conducting the study]
Details of what you did
can also go below under method - i.e. can become the procedure of what you did.
__ Connection to Literature [annotated bibliography,
other resources referred to]
This section can be moved to wherever
in your study it makes sense
__ Data Collected [types: observations, interviews,
artifacts; plan implemented]
__ Data Findings/Outcomes [summary]
Full raw data can be appended at the
end
__ Interpretation [how do you make sense of your
findings? what did you learn?]
__ Challenges/gaps in study
[what were any barriers or challenges that arose?]
__ Next Steps - Plan for Moving Forward
What would you do in a follow-up
iteration?
__ References - [properly formatted]
e.g.
APA style for help see https://sites.google.com/site/apahelp8/
__ Appendices [here is where you would include any related materials]
__ Data
Collection Instruments [e.g. survey, lesson materials, other documentation]
__ Full Datasets [if applicable]
__ Annotated Bibliographies/Resources [if
applicable]
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