Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research

Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom
Ernest T. Stringer - Curtin University, Australia
Lois McFadyen Christensen - University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Shelia C. Baldwin - Monmouth University, USA
Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research
March 2009 | 200 pages | Sage US
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Description

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Helping teachers engage K–12 students as participatory researchers to accomplish highly effective learning outcomes

Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K–12 Classroom demonstrates how teachers can use action research as an integral component of teaching and learning. The text uses examples and lesson plans to demonstrate how student research processes can be incorporated into classroom lessons that are linked to standards.

Key Features

  • Guides teachers through systematic steps of planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation, taking into account the diverse abilities and characteristics of their students, the complex body of knowledge and skills they must acquire, and the wide array of learning activities that can be engaged in the process
  • Demonstrates how teacher action research and student action learning—working in tandem—create a dynamic, engaging learning community that enables students to achieve desired learning outcomes
  • Provides clear directions and examples of how to apply action research to core classroom activities: lesson planning, instructional processes, student learning activities, assessment, and evaluation


Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

1. Action Research in Teaching and Learning

1. Action Research in Teaching and Learning

2. Learning Theory

2. Learning Theory

3. Lesson Planning

3. Lesson Planning

4. Instruction: Facilitating Student Learning

4. Instruction: Facilitating Student Learning

5. Action Learning: Accomplishing Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards

5. Action Learning: Accomplishing Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards

6. Assessment and Evaluation

6. Assessment and Evaluation

Appendix. Case Examples

Appendix. Case Examples

References

References

Index

Index

About the Authors

About the Authors

Description

CourseSmart

Helping teachers engage K–12 students as participatory researchers to accomplish highly effective learning outcomes

Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K–12 Classroom demonstrates how teachers can use action research as an integral component of teaching and learning. The text uses examples and lesson plans to demonstrate how student research processes can be incorporated into classroom lessons that are linked to standards.

Key Features

  • Guides teachers through systematic steps of planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation, taking into account the diverse abilities and characteristics of their students, the complex body of knowledge and skills they must acquire, and the wide array of learning activities that can be engaged in the process
  • Demonstrates how teacher action research and student action learning—working in tandem—create a dynamic, engaging learning community that enables students to achieve desired learning outcomes
  • Provides clear directions and examples of how to apply action research to core classroom activities: lesson planning, instructional processes, student learning activities, assessment, and evaluation


Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

1. Action Research in Teaching and Learning

1. Action Research in Teaching and Learning

2. Learning Theory

2. Learning Theory

3. Lesson Planning

3. Lesson Planning

4. Instruction: Facilitating Student Learning

4. Instruction: Facilitating Student Learning

5. Action Learning: Accomplishing Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards

5. Action Learning: Accomplishing Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards

6. Assessment and Evaluation

6. Assessment and Evaluation

Appendix. Case Examples

Appendix. Case Examples

References

References

Index

Index

About the Authors

About the Authors

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Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research

Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom


March 2009 | 200 pages | Sage US

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CourseSmart

Helping teachers engage K–12 students as participatory researchers to accomplish highly effective learning outcomes

Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K–12 Classroom demonstrates how teachers can use action research as an integral component of teaching and learning. The text uses examples and lesson plans to demonstrate how student research processes can be incorporated into classroom lessons that are linked to standards.

Key Features

  • Guides teachers through systematic steps of planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation, taking into account the diverse abilities and characteristics of their students, the complex body of knowledge and skills they must acquire, and the wide array of learning activities that can be engaged in the process
  • Demonstrates how teacher action research and student action learning—working in tandem—create a dynamic, engaging learning community that enables students to achieve desired learning outcomes
  • Provides clear directions and examples of how to apply action research to core classroom activities: lesson planning, instructional processes, student learning activities, assessment, and evaluation



Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Action Research in Teaching and Learning
  • 2. Learning Theory
  • 3. Lesson Planning
  • 4. Instruction: Facilitating Student Learning
  • 5. Action Learning: Accomplishing Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards
  • 6. Assessment and Evaluation
  • Appendix. Case Examples
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Authors

Recent Product Reviews:

Complements one chapter on Action Research. I use it as a supplemental reading.
Dr Zsuzsanna Szabo, Social Behavioral Science Div, Marist College
very informative for research module
Mrs Paula Willis, School of Health Studies, Darlington College
I adopted it as a second text book used in combination with the primary text for the course.Mostly to help students do reflection on their teaching.Students like the book because is very simple to use as a guide for their action research and reflection on classroom teaching.
Dr Zsuzsanna Szabo, Social Behavioral Science Div, Marist College
This book is designed, as it says on the cover, for the enhancement of instruction in the K-12 classroom. I read the book in the hope of finding new approaches to action research within my classrooms but found the book to be specific to K-12 and only loosely based around action research. It is a well considered book but I found the link to action research to be misleading as the emphasis seemed to be on action learning as an alternative re-conceptualisation of the original model. However, that said I found the examples and case studies of most benefit and would recommend the book to those unfamiliar with classroom-based research who want to see what others might have done.
Dr Ashley Casey, Department of Physical Education and Sport Studies, University of Bedfordshire

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