Professional Practice I - Week 11 - Designing an Intervention Project

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 11 of the Professional Practice I of the BA in English Teaching at ULACIT term IIIC 2022. In today's class we will review some alternative models for designing teacher research projects and we will focus on the action research cycle as a model to use to design your intervention project proposal.

Today's Goals:

• Label and discuss the stages of Freeman's Teacher Research Cycle.
• Analyze sample teacher research projects according to van Lier's organization and intervention dimensions.
• Draft a proposal for your intervention project.

Guiding Questions:

• Why are teachers uniquely qualified to carry out educational research?
• What degree of reorganization and intervention would be appropriate for my intervention project?
• How can the next phase of my research benefit my educational context?

Warm Up: Thanksgiving and the Columbian Exchange

For our warm up activity, we will take a look at the Columbian Exchange, the movement of plants and animals from the Old World to the New World as a result of contact between Europe and the Americas beginning on October 12th 1492.

Click the link and find your section of the document.

• Group Quiz: CLICK HERE
• Group Document 2: CLICK HERE

Topic 1: Weekly Check-In

It's week eleven! By now you have finished your site visits and data collection. Let's take a moment to reflect on your progress this week.

• Did you visit the school this week?
• Did you collect any final pieces of data?
• Have you completed your hours log?
• Did you have your supervisor complete your evaluation?
• What are you concerned about regarding what is pending for this course?

Topic 2: Doing Teacher Research

As we near the end of the course, let's think back about the important role teachers play in educational research. Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Topic 3: Dimensions of Teacher Research

Even though you are nearing the end of your current research project, you still have another project to complete next term. Let's look at a model for understanding the different formats that teacher research designs can take. These may help you think about the proposal for your intervention project. Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE
• Sample Research: CLICK HERE

Topic 4: Action Research and Designing an Intervention Project

Action research is the most common form of teacher research. Let's learn some theory about it. Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instruction.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

• Intervention Project Proposal Template: CLICK HERE
• Ericka's Proposal: CLICK HERE
• Selena's Proposal: CLICK HERE
• Natalia's Proposal: CLICK HERE