Week #3
Rhode Island College • Feinstein School of Education & Human Development •
Dept. of Educational Studies
FNED 562
Inquiry into Classroom Practice
Practicing Thick Description
Namecards out
A little light jazz to set the mood
Driving Questions for Advisory
Memo #1-- Making the Familiar, Strange
Focus group sharing: Memo #1: Making the Familiar Strange
What problems emerged? List them.
"The Talk" about how teachers give completely of themselves but also need critical distance to be constantly improving
Google Drawings
Round Robin sharing of Google Drawings of tensions in the classroom
Help each other to save as jpg's and post on the personal blogs/ websites
Teacher Researcher Scholarship
Shuffle pairs and share articles via Scholarly Analysis Protocol
Full class brainstorming:
What topics and issues emerged in the studies we chose?
How can mentor texts like these inform our own upcoming research questions?
What makes teacher research different from other kinds of research?
Collective Composition: Falk & Blumenreich, Chapter One
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qxrushEN_ZmXHCP-XxpQO2n9LKxEVV7U0hFqRpdyte0/edit#slide=id.p
3Ps: Reframing all into Memo #2
Place, Participants, and Practitioner
Memo #2: Setting
Read "Discovering Action Research: the Evolution of my Research Question,”
by Barbara Bell Angus
Read F&B: Chapter Nine
Take observational notes in your teacher researcher journal for 10 minutes average a day.