EDUA 5784 Research Your Classroom
RESEARCH YOUR CLASSROOM: IMPROVING PRACTICE THROUGH TEACHER INQUIRY
Are there certain aspects of your classroom that you wish you could change? Do you feel like you would have all sorts of new ideas for improving your teaching practice if you just had the time to think and explore? If so, it’s time to engage in teacher inquiry.
This course will provide you the tools to think about your classroom through the eyes of a teacher researcher, working with an inquiry model to wonder, collect data, and make improvements to your teaching practice. By learning about the steps of teacher inquiry and implementing them in a research project, you will gain skills that can be used again and again to adjust your practice to meet the needs of your students. By the end of this course, you will know how to ask and answer research questions in the context of your own classroom with far-reaching results.