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The Power Of Questions: A Guide To Teacher And Student Research

The Instructor's Guide provides a suggested framework that outlines each class session, complete with detailed assignments and rubrics for assessment. Teacher research is a tool that can help you continue to learn throughout your career. Pursuing your own questions has the potential to foster genuine understandings of educational methods, re-invigorate your teaching practices, and re-shape your curriculum for the benefit of your students. The Power of Questions makes connections between investigating issues related to your practice and designing research curricula for your students. Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich carefully illustrate and scaffold the research process for you by breaking it into smaller steps. They cite examples of real teacher researchers' studies as they provide advice, study questions, and exercise that help you: formulate a research question design a study investigate prior research on the subject choose the best tools for collecting evidence analyze your findings and apply them to the issues and dilemmas in your teaching life share what you've learned with others make research a regular part of your practice. Unlike any other book on teacher research, Falk and Blumenreich provide you with analogous research projects for your students that support a classroom environment of inquiry and discovery. For teacher educators, an accompanying online instructor's manual includes rubrics to support and assess teacher professional development. Whether you are a preservice, inservice or veteran teacher, through the inquiry and reflection of teacher research you can learn about your practice and your students and gain a deeper understanding of the potential that the inquiry process has to support powerful student learning.

Paperback: 232 pages

Publisher: Heinemann; Later Printing edition (February 8, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0325006989

ISBN-13: 978-0325006987

Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #50,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #28 in Books > Education & Teaching > Schools & Teaching > Education Theory > Experimental Methods #1569 in Books > Textbooks > Education #13773 in Books > Children's Books

Age Range: 5 - 17 years

Grade Level: Kindergarten - 12

Falk and Blumenreich write in a way that is teacher friendly, jargon-free, and accessible to all. Direct quotes and summaries of studies from real teachers in real classrooms help to authenticate the main points presented by the authors. User-friendly activities and templates are offered to assist teacher researchers with the processes of identifying, gathering, and analyzing data. Although the focus is on teacher inquiry, a significant portion of the text also addresses the facilitation of student inquiry. The Power of Questions is an excellent introduction for those new to the world of teacher research. In addition, those who have experienced the exhilaration of classroom inquiry will enjoy the fresh insight from the authors.

I had to purchase this book for a teacher research course through my university, and found it to be an extremely valuable tool! The book is easy for readers to follow and uses language that all readers can understand. The book provides great case studies and examples for readers to use as brainstorming ideas as they are beginning to plan their own research projects. I definitely feel more prepared to complete my research project having used this book!

This is an extremely useful book. The books Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others and Quantum Power Questions cover this area very well, and they complement each other nicely. These books are the kind that offer ideas that one uses all through life. This is well worth having.

This is a great book for teachers and breaks down the action research process as well as provides a component for doing research with your students. This book is excellently written and I will not be reselling it to the college bookstore!

Good book. Easy read and well detailed.

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