Session Title:
Classroom-based research for Professional Development
Abstract:
This hands-on EVO project aims at empowering teachers to conduct teacher research to solve real site-based problems in their classrooms.
Being guided by our team of experienced moderators, participants will have the possibility of implementing their research projects in their classrooms as well as of sharing them in the EVO online community.
Target audience:
We aim to connect with senior level pre-service teachers, teacher trainers, mentors and teacher educators interested in exploring their classrooms.
Session objectives:
By the end of this hands-on session, participants will have understood research as a way of teacher development,
- developed autonomy to engage in research for PD,
- implemented a small-scale research in their own classrooms or teaching institutions,
- reflected on the results of their research projects and applied that to their future teaching and
shared their research project findings with other participants in this community of online practice in EVO, and if possible, beyond.
Syllabus:
Week 1: Jan, 11-18 2020
Introduction and role of research for teacher development
After listening to an introduction to the Classroom-based research for Professional Development EVO session 2020, participants will introduce their classrooms and teaching situation to the others in the community. Participants will explore characteristics of teacher development and discuss potential contributions of research to continuing professional development. Successful teaching experiences related to the participants’ contexts will be shared. The emphasis will be on confidence-building and relationship-building via recognition of themselves and their colleagues as experts in their own classrooms.
Week 2: Jan. 19-25 2020
Identifying a focus of research, turning it into research questions and using colleagues as a resource.
Participants will be guided to identify a research focus (e.g. a problem, a point to consider, a question, etc.) and to turn it into a research question or questions. Colleagues and fellow EVO participants could be consulted to find answers to it. Participants will get feedback from moderators and peers.
Week 3: Jan. 26- Feb. 1 2020
Practical tools for exploratory research
Participants will be introduced to the value of exploring before attempting to bring about a change which requires stepping back from the situation, considering different sources of information and appropriate data collection tools. After identifying the main features of various types of data collection tools, participants will determine the best type for their own questions and will plan to use them. Moderators and peers will guide participants and give feedback during this process. Participants will also be shown how they can involve their students in the research and problem-solving process.
Week 4: Feb. 2-8 2020
Discussion of basic data analysis procedures and ways of sharing research
Participants will learn about several ways to gather and analyse data and will decide which analysis procedure(s) will best complement their study. Moderators will guide participants and give feedback during this process. Finally, participants will discuss how to best share their valuable insights with their colleagues, with a focus on innovative, creative and teacher-friendly means of sharing.
Week 5: Feb. 9-15 2020
Further research and sharing
The way classroom research can be planned, with a focus on the way exploration can lead into action, reflection and evaluation of change will be discussed. Participants will reflect on their goals for implementing further classroom research and will share them. At the end of week 5, teacher participants will share their productions in the form of research plans or research itself and they will be encouraged to join specific networks (the 'Teachers Research!' Facebook group, the Teaching English in Large Classes network (TELCnet) and IATEFL Research SIG) for further development in this area. They will also be invited to stay in touch and report back about their research on an ongoing basis.
Media:
-Website: for initial publicity/information
- Interactive space: Facebook group https://web.facebook.com/groups/evo2017classroomresearch/?_rdc=1&_rdr
- Content space: Edmodo: https://new.edmodo.com/ Group code will be provided by email
- Live-streamed sessions: Zoom
Other technology tools:
FlipGrid
Join this session
Registration starts on Jan 5, 2020.
To join this EVO session:
First join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/evo2017classroomresearch/ - further information will be provided there.
From January 5-11 is the Registration week. Please, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/uL2yJGe5kB8wi9gT7
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Sponsor: http://www.faapi.org.ar/
Lead-moderators:
Moderators:
Mariana Falco |
marianafalcoar@yahoo.com.ar |
Margarita Mariana Falco holds a Teaching Degree in English (UNVM, Argentina), an Ed.S. Degree in Adult Education (Universidad Mayor, Chile),and a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TESOL) from Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana, Puerto Rico. She works mainly in the areas of English Language Teaching at Universidad Nacional de Villa María where she is the coordinator of the English Teacher Training Programme and a member of the University Council. She is director of research projects that focus on EFL learning, understanding, healthy breaks in the classroom, and visible thinking. She is a Fulbright and a Rotary awardee. Falco has done volunteer work,given workshops, published, and lectured at conferences both at home and abroad. Currently, she is writing her thesis for a Ph.D. in pedagogy. |
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Primary Contact:
classroombasedresearch20@gmail.com