Teacher as Researcher

RE 5040
Teacher as Researcher

Unit One

Calendar and Assignments

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Date	In Class Activities	Assignment (Completed by this date)
August 30	Syllabus Price Reading Symposium Textbooks Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III IRA Electronic Bookstore Action, Talk & Text Technology Requirements (email addresses, class listserv, On-line Community Forum) Literacy Autobiography Assignment Informed consent Pre-writing brainstorm activity
September 6	No class (Labor day)	Work on assignments
September 13	Review technology requirements Discuss Discourse and Literacies Review Chapters 1 and 10 from Action, Talk and Text Discuss "Action Research" Writers' Workshop	Submit a response to the first class on the Online Community Forum . Respond to at least one of your classmates. Purchase class textbooks. Read *Discourse and Literacies* by Jim Gee (on electronic reserve) PowerPoint Read Chapter 1 (on electronic reserve) and Chapter 10 in Action, Talk & Text Review Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. Make sure you read Gordon Wells' Editorial Introduction in the first issue. Submit responses to all readings on the Online Community Forum Review last semester's Literacy Autobiographies Write first draft of intellectual autobiography
September 20	Symposium RRQ article Readers' Theater article Discuss Chapter 6, Handbook of Reading Research Introduction to research questions Writers' Workshop, Editing and Revising	Post a second response to Gee's chapter "Discourse and Literacies" on the Online Community Forum You can either respond to one of your classmates, or click on the "Create New Conversation" button to start a new idea. Revise your draft of the intellectual autobiography Read Chapter 6, Handbook of Reading Research and complete the "reading guide-o-rama" Post a response on the Online Community Forum
September 27	Discuss Chapter 37, Handbook of Reading Research Discuss research questions Writers' Workshop, Editing and Revising	Read Chapter 37, Handbook of Reading Research and complete the online study guide. Post a response on the Online Community Forum Read Finding and Framing the Research Question in Teachers are Researchers (on electronic reserve) Develop a preliminary research question for your teacher/reseacher project. Post the question on the Online Community Forum. You should read all your classmates' questions and respond as appropriate. Begin searching for articles related to your research question.
October 4	Library presentation DEAR (read all your writers' group autobiographies) Review syllabus changes	Final draft, autobiography due Email to Professor as attachment by Friday, October 1 Make copies for everyone in your writers' group Read Strauss & Corbin Basics of Qualitative Research Chapters 1, 2 (on Library Reserve) & 5 (class handout)
October 11	Discuss Strauss & Corbin study guide and microanalysis Microanalysis of class autobiographies Discuss research projects (questions and procedures)	Reread the Strauss & Corbin Chapters and complete the study guide Work on your research project procedures
October 18	Discuss Maloch Reading Research Reports Analysize literacy autobiographies Discuss research questions for classroom research projects Preview next week's reading	Maloch, Scaffolding Student Talk, Electronic Reserve Chapter 2, Action, Talk & Text

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updated August, 2004