being a reflexive teacher

Idea->PowerPoint->PaperWriting a paper for a professional journal

(Be)ing a Teacher

Why do this?

When you write, you think and reflect on your thoughts and actions

Looking at what, how and why we teach

Developing a Reflexive approach to you teaching

Actively improving how you teach using a Action Research Approach

Reflective VS Reflexive

Reflective – looking at what you have done… “Good lesson/unit kids did well on the assessment”

Something that we do all the time, we think about our work and assess it as we see it within the light of our experience

Reflective VS Reflexive

Reflexive - The researcher as a reflexive subject is embedded within the world, the embedded-ness of the subject and his reflexive subjectivity is [his] lived experience, “much like Heidegger’s spatio-temporally constituted Da-sein” (Han, 2010, p. 205). Emerging from [his] lived experience is a reflexive sensibility as the researcher struggles “to understand how we lay claim to know something worth acting upon” (Holland 1999, p. 464). The thing worth acting upon was the researcher’s subjective and objective construction of self which was constantly recreated in “an ongoing process of negotiation” (Lopes, 2009, p. 465)

Action Research

action research concerns actors – those people carrying out their professional actions from day to day - and its purpose is to understand and to improve those actions.

It is about trying to understand professional action from the inside; as a result, it is research that is carried out by practitioners on their own practice, not (as in other forms of research), done by someone on somebody else’s practice.

Action research in education is grounded in the working lives of teachers, as they experience them.

Types of Action Research

http://www.lab.brown.edu/pubs/themes_ed/act_research.pdf

Doing Action Research

research in action

by using

action as a tool for research

with the process being driven by a dialogue between the elements of:

action and the intentions behind action OR

practice and the values behind practice

http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/RESINED/actionresearch/arhome.htm

Action Research Cycle


So how do I get started?

Pick your spot in the sun

Read what others have written, Google Scholar, Online journals, look at the bibliography and draw ideas from this

High Light, underline while you read and draw upon these

syn·the·sisnoun, plural syn·the·ses [sin-thuh-seez]

1.the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity ( opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.

So how do I get started?

a·nal·y·sis [uh-nal-uh-sis]noun, plural -ses [-seez] 1. the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements ( opposed to synthesis). 2. this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations: the grammatical analysis of a sentence. 3. a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process: The paper published an analysis of the political situation. 4. a philosophical method of exhibiting complex concepts or propositions as compounds or functions of more basic ones

The Analysis-Synthesis Bridge Model

http://www.dubberly.com/articles/interactions-the-analysis-synthesis-bridge-model.html

The frame work – Using PowerPoint

Each point or key idea create a slide for, this is the heading of your slide

Sub-headings used to support your main heading/idea

Repeat this process, until you feel you are finished

The frame work – Using PowerPoint

Each slide treat as a paragraph, flesh out the text

Try to keep it to one no more than two paragraphs per slide

References

http://www.dubberly.com/articles/interactions-the-analysis-synthesis-bridge-model.html

HAN, S. (2010). Theorizing new media: reflexivity, knowledge, and the web 2.0. Sociological Inquiry, 80(2), pp. 200-213.

HOLLAND, R. (1999). Reflexivity, Human Relations, 52(4), pp. 463-484.


http://www.lab.brown.edu/pubs/themes_ed/act_research.pdf

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