Discipline: Professional Resources
Grade(s): K - 12
Delivery Method: Print
Province: National
Imprint: Heinemann
Author(s): Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater, Bonnie S. Sunstein
Language(s): English
What Works? A Practical Guide to Teacher Research
This is a comprehensive look at what goes into teacher research and what you'll get out of it. Whether you're answering some persistent question about your classroom, thinking about your curriculum, taking a course, researching for a grant application or National Board Certification®, Chiseri-Strater and Sunstein have laid out action research as an easy-to-understand process.
They've organized What Works? as a teacher-friendly instruction manual, introducing each of the tasks of teacher research one by one—from shaping a question, to designing a study, to conducting it, to disseminating your results. Each step of the way you'll read supportive advice, see illustrations from projects around the U.S., find exercises that hone the skills necessary to do research, encounter numerous creative suggestions for expanding the range and scope of traditional action research, and learn what a vital and important influence it can be on your instruction.