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Lesson 05: Teacher Inquiry: What Counts as Evidence?
Lesson 05 Activities
Lesson 05 Discussion | Inquiry and Media Search Share
Guidelines for Submission
Original posts should be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday and should be approximately 150–250 words in length. After posting your original response, read through the other student postings and respond to at least two of these. Strive to respond to posts that resonate with you, and make an effort to include everyone in the discussion. Take care to facilitate discussion within your thread (the thread associated with your original post), by responding to and encouraging continued discussion with students who respond to your post. All responses to other students' posts below must be completed by no later than 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday.
Instructions
Video 5.1. Teacher Inquiry Project: Digital Story (2007) focuses on the impact the inquiry-based model of learning has on student attitudes. Video 5.2. Association of Raza Educators (2011) focuses on information relevant to teacher inquiry groups.
Both videos provide media information relevant to this week's broader topic of teacher inquiry; however, both sources are also somewhat dated. Your challenge is to find a new(er), interesting, and relevant source of information to share with the class.
The source you choose should be some form of media (e.g., website, video, blog post, podcast, etc.), and your selected source should be accessible to your classmates (i.e., not on a paid service) so they can consume it, comment on it, and question it. You may search applications such as YouTube, Twitter, websites, the University Libraries, or other media sources. As already noted, your selected source should be relevant to teacher inquiry, and the more directly that ties specifically to teacher leadership, the better.
Select and submit your source in the discussion thread. Additionally, describe the source, include where you found it, and explain why or how it resonates with you as a relevant media source specific to inquiry and the inquiry-based model for teacher leaders.
Lesson 05 Assignment | Personal Reflection #2
Assignment Directions
Use the following two-part prompt for your response.
Your Research Experiences
Using the guidelines described on the Details for Writing Assignments and Assessments page, review the scoring rubric for the final project/inquiry proposal. Consider what goes into writing a proposal and, ultimately, into conducting educational research.
From the perspective of what goes into good research, talk about your professional relationship with reading or doing educational research. Have you conducted research or some other form of inquiry? If so, describe the project and how it did or did not impact your teaching practice. If you have not conducted an inquiry, reflect on some experiment you might have tried with your teaching or an idea that you had that you tried to confirm in your classroom. Also, say why you thought this experiment did not qualify as inquiry or research.
Your Research Skills
Reflect on what you think your skills and talents are or might be with regards to inquiry. What are you good at that might be particularly useful in an investigation of some problem in your classroom? Describe why you think your particular skills and talents might enhance your research practice. Then, conclude by reflecting on the skills you think you currently don’t possess or need to develop more in order to develop an inquiry.
Make sure your Personal Reflection contains both parts of this assignment.