Week #1

Rhode Island College • Feinstein School of Education & Human Development •

Dept. of Educational Studies

FNED 562

Inquiry into Classroom Practice

The Reflective Practitioner

Sharing your conceptual place in the world of teaching, your future career goals,

your vision, and your hope for your future teacher researcher self.

Getting Started

Completing a Namecard

Reviewing the syllabus

Discussing our face-to-face + asynchronous online course = hybrid

Setting up your personal blog/ website and entering information on our class website and on the Teacher Researcher Information doc

(Dr. Carolyn needs to open this up for editing in person, or else send her your URL and she'll do it for you)

Reminder to order the book:

Brainstorming the Moments of Tension: Reading your Classroom as a Text

Visualization (activity directions) and Google Drawings (platform directions)

What works? What doesn't work? What works for some but not for others?

Analysis and Interpretation: A Gestalt

Modeling the research study data analysis through artifacts

Reading from Two Perspectives

Bill Bryson Reverse POV Excerpts

... which leads us to ...

Memo #1:

Making the Familiar Strange

This assignment should be posted by 1/24 at 4 p.m. -- Once to your blog/ website and a second time to Blackboard.

Please save your memo as a 365 Word file, ideally, and then Browse My Computer to upload the file to Blackboard.

+ Take observational notes in your teacher researcher journal for 10 minutes average a day.

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