Generating Knowledge From Teacher Research to Meet the Challenges Within Public Education

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 16

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Four public school teachers working at different schools along the K-12 spectrum, but studying within the same master’s degree program, discuss the transformative aspects of teacher research as each addresses a specific challenge surfacing in their educational contexts. Issues of social justice, motivation, professional relationships and pedagogy are highlighted as each teacher discovers how shared reflective research practices contribute to an expanded notion of collaborative education. Each educator explores the intricate details within the teacher-research model, focusing on the opportunities, insights and emergent questions that helped transcend obstructions to students’ achievement. Each draws on multiple data sources to generate knowledge for teaching by exploring differing but related challenges within contemporary public education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Teacher as Researcher

Chairs

• Alan D. Amtzis, The College of New Jersey

• Claudia A Gentile, NORC at University of Chicago

Papers

• Cultivating Active Minds: The Impact of Bringing Social Justice Literature to Life in Middle School - Brooke Chuddley Diatta, Long Valley Middle School

• I Want Them to Love It: Instilling a "Can-Do" Attitude in High School Guitar Class - Andrew Pfaff, Bergen County Technical High School

• How Does Instructional Technology Impact My Teaching of Spanish II? - Jonathan Cataldi, Kinnelon, NJ School District

• Is It Me or Is It You? Finding the Fulcrum of Experiential Subjectivity - Mary Beth Duffin-Hickey, Bridgewater-Raritan School District