Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher: Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher: Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher: Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher: Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry

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Overview

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers and teacher educators. Of course, none of the initiatives described in the text would be possible without the visionary leadership of school and district administrators. Because administrative support is foundational to the process, school and district administrators and staff developers will also be interested in reading about how this school's principal and assistant principal set the stage for developing their community of learners. There are many sound action research texts on the market. What sets this text apart are the first-person accounts of teachers' experiences with action research as examples of profound possibilities for professional growth. As such, this book, written by teachers for other teachers and then contextualized by the Editors so that the relevance is clear to a broader audience, fills an important niche in the literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781607099673
Publisher: R&L Education
Publication date: 11/16/2010
Pages: 110
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Roger Neilson Brindley is an Associate Professor and the Interim Associate Director of USF World and the Patel Center for Global Solutions at the University of South Florida. He believes master teachers have a remarkable set of skills, and his teaching and research is committed to extending effective pedagogy in teacher education. Christine Crocco brings nineteen years of classroom teaching and over a decade of district office experience to her position as Assistant Director of the David C. Anchin Center at the University of South Florida. Chris is passionate about supporting administrators and teachers in creating the structures for job-embedded staff development.

Table of Contents

Foreword Nancy Fichtman Dana v

Acknowledgments ix

Part I Exploring the Key Concepts

1 Promoting Teachers as Thoughtful, Proactive, and Effective Decision Makers! Roger Brindley Christine Crocco 3

2 Professional Learning Communities: Setting the Stage for Collaboration Christine Crocco 8

3 Demystifying Action Research: A Practical Explanation for Teacher Researchers Roger Brindley 18

Part II Creating a Culture of Inquiry

4 The Perspectives of a School Administration Chris Christoff Matt Gruhl 35

Part III Practitioner Research Chapters

5 Coming Full Circle: Describing a Year of Action Research Leslie Frick 59

6 Service Learning and Action Research: Developing a Course that Sparked the Flame of Citizenship Cindy Tehan Janet Tolson 69

7 Action Research" You've Got to Be Kidding Me Danielle Lawrence 78

8 Write-On: Using Research Data to Improve Student Achievement Karen Zantop 84

9 Action Research: Motivating Middle School Students Karen Wood 90

10 A Splash of Color with a Dash of Discovery Makes One Great Shade Lisa Fisher 96

Part IV Affirming the Voice of the Teacher Researcher

11 Reflecting Back on a Year of Growth: The Results of Thoughtful, Proactive, and Effective Teacher Research Christine Crocco Roger Brindley 109

About the Editors 117

About the Contributors 119

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