EDUC276

Description

This combined graduate/undergraduate seminar will provide professional development, support, and a collegial learning community for pre-K-3rd teachers and their allies, undergraduate students working in partnership with teacher researchers. The goal is to use teacher research - as a site to support everyone to learn about socially just, participatory research and documentation practices, take one's teaching and inquiry to the next level of excellence, and to support teachers (and by extension, their students) and undergraduates as powerful, transformative learners and agents of change. Teacher research - documentation and reflection of one's own classroom practice - is a centerpiece of this seminar. We will read about and practice a variety of ethnographic and discourse analytic tools and approaches for "bringing our classrooms" to the table. We will work with discourse data to ask and answer our own questions about teaching and learning and making thinking visible. Teachers from different schools, different grade levels, and undergraduate aspiring "praxis researchers" and educators will work together on equal footing. We will learn from one another and build something together that is greater than the individual work any of us could do alone. This course fulfils the research methods requirement for the CYES major.