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Direct linkWolkenhauer, Rachel; Boynton, Sylvia; Dana, Nancy Fichtman – Teacher Education and Practice, 2011
This article presents a framework for establishing inquiry as a foundation of a teacher education program to help prospective and practicing teachers view inquiry not as a project but as a stance. Cochran-Smith and Lytle (2009) assert that "working from an inquiry stance involves a continual process of making current arrangements problematic,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Inquiry, Teacher Researchers
Peer reviewedDahl, Karin L. – English Quarterly, 1988
Reports a two-phase ethnographic investigation documenting peer conference activity among fourth graders in a writing workshop. Investigates, in phase one, what happens in peer conferences and how that relates to instructional context. Investigates, in phase two, comments about revision, participant expectations, and use of peer comments during…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Ethnography, Grade 4
Peer reviewedWright, Kimberley A. – Language Arts, 2000
Shares how a fourth-grade teacher learned to use whole-class "Spelling Meetings" as a focus of her spelling instruction. Describes initiating spelling notebooks, the first spelling meeting, and subsequent ones as both teacher and students found their way, making adjustments and finding new directions, and having students catch themselves using a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Bintz, William P.; Dillard, Jill – Reading Horizons, 2007
This article describes findings from a classroom-based action research project conducted by two in-school teachers, a literacy coach and a 4th grade teacher, implementing a new integrated literacy and social studies curriculum and the changes they made in curricular practices and beliefs over a three-year period of time. A university professor…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Teacher Researchers, Research Methodology, Educational Change
Mello, Robin – Primer: The Journal of the Massachusetts Reading Association, 1997
Little research exists that examines how children experience listening to stories, and few studies have been done that ask students to discuss their own experience with storytelling. A qualitative grounded study designed to focus upon children's responses and experiences to storytelling in the classroom was conducted in a public middle school in a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities
Peer reviewedStuart, Maureen A. – Elementary School Journal, 1994
Two classroom research studies of fourth graders employed group grading to increase cooperation among group members and mathematics test scores of low achievers. Results indicated that group grading was more effective with students who enjoyed working in groups and who accepted the method of assessment than with students who did not like group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
