Week #5

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

Dept. of Educational Studies

FNED 562

Inquiry into Classroom Practice

Research Questions

"Go See the Mardi Gras" from Preservation Hall

Name cards out

Blogs open to homepage with Google Drawings

Group assignments for Week #5

PART ONE: REVIEWING OUR WEEK FOUR LEARNING EVENTS

Previewing Research Question Writing: Angus, B. B. "Discovering Action Research: the Evolution of My Research Question"

Dialectical Responses to Bell Angus

Read Falk & Blumenreich, The Power of Questions, Chapter Nine

Collaborative Google Slideshow: Each teacher researcher shares her/ his slide for the full class

Google Doc: Identifying concise writing strategies

** Share your writing strategies with your assigned group -- then to the white boards

** Share your revision with your assigned group

F&B: Chapter Two

---> Memo #3: Teacher researcher methodology: Share with your assigned group, offering advice on "cohesion"

Please check Blackboard periodically in case you have neglected to submit a graded assignment. After 2 weeks, these missed assignments will convert to "0."

PART TWO: PREPARING TO WRITE THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Developing qualitative research questions, by Jane Agee

[helpful but optional]

Week #6 is online (school vacation for some teachers)

Read F&B: Chapter 3

Memo #4:

What are some research questions you are contemplating?

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