Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom

Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom Review

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

Action Research for Teacher Candidates: Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction

Action Research for Teacher Candidates: Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction Review

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies that help students succeed. Robert P. Pelton is also the author of Making Classroom Inquiry Work: Techniques for Effective Action Research, which is designed to serve those who wish to delve deeper into their action research or as leaders in teacher research and reflective practice. These two books serve as both a perfect training curriculum for pre-service teachers at the undergraduate or graduate level and as an excellent vehicle for professional development for in-service teachers.

Lights, Camera, Action!: A Guide to Video Instruction and Production in the Classroom

Lights, Camera, Action!: A Guide to Video Instruction and Production in the Classroom Review

As teachers we all are looking for new teaching methods that will give our students a learning experience they will carry with them throughout their lives. Creating video productions is a good teaching method that works and will give the student a learning experience that he or she will never forget.

This comprehensive guide will make you and your students video masters! Imagine your students writing and producing documentaries about historical events, movies that portray short stories they are reading, or commercials that demonstrate persuasive techniques. Lights, Camera, Action! offers practical ideas for incorporating video production into the traditional content of any classroom. The author covers simple projects for first-timers, in-depth documentary projects, community service videos, and much more. Examples of video project ideas for several subject areas are provided.

Video projects give students hands-on learning experiences that can be shared with others. News programs can make your students “campus celebrities” while they learn to incorporate problem solving, research, and reasoning.