Action Research for Teacher Candidates

Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction

By (author) Robert P. Pelton Contributions by Elizabeth Baker, Johnna Bolyard, Reagan Curtis, Jaci Webb-Dempsey, Debi Gartland Towson University, Mark Girod, David Hoppey, Geraldine Jenny, Marie LeJeune, Catherine C. Lewis, Aimee Morewood, Susan H. Pillets, Neal Shambaugh, Tracy Smiles, Robert Snyder, Linda Taylor, Steve Wojcikiewicz

Publication date:

16 October 2010

Length of book:

228 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

238x164mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781607096924

Teachers are the most essential element in a child's success in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates provides teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, responsive, and effective methods that generate success in school for both teachers and students.
This book provides a formula for data-driven results. It details a process ensuring high-level student achievement.

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Section I: Understanding Action Research
Chapter 3 An Introduction to Action Research for the Teacher Candidate
Chapter 4 Understanding Your Data
Chapter 5 Developing an Action Research Project
Part 6 Section II: A Cross Section of Action Research Applications
Chapter 7 Action Research and the Early Childhood Educator
Chapter 8 Action Research through the Lens of Lesson Study
Chapter 9 Teacher Work Sample Methodology as a Frame for Action Research
Chapter 10 Action Research to Change Student Behavior
Chapter 11 Response to Intervention: A Framework for Action Research

This book is more than a valuable addition to the teacher education literature and a valuable resource for the pre-service educator; it is an important addition to a movement to remake our nation's schools into true professional learning communities.