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For courses in Action Research; supplement for Reading Methods courses; and Teacher Education courses. Appealingly styled as a "journey" on a "yellow brick road," this compact text links all of the practical aspects of conducting action research with the scholarly tools that support the cycle of reflective practice, thereby showing prospective and practicing teachers how to make action research a natural part of their teaching. Offers a clear vision of how curiosity, play, imagination, and creativity can inform classroom teaching, as well as practical, well-grounded guidelines for using these qualities to enhance effective research studies in both individual and collaborative contexts.
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Action Research for Teachers: Traveling the Yellow Brick Road, Second Edition, provides a solid framework for problem solving in collaborative contexts. The authors of this book detail how action research is a powerful method for documenting, developing, and evaluating the curriculum. Using the analogy of the Wizard of Oz and its characters, this text is expressly written for literacy teachers and identifies all of the elements that make action research a valuable self-assessment tool for teachers.
Features include:- Seven Sections. Each section is complete with excerpts from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum, 1900) to set the tone of the chapter, introductions, and summaries.
- Exploring the Forest. This is a workshop of explorations and exercises that will enable the reader to develop tools for carrying out an action research project, including how to keep a research journal and collect artifacts for a mini-portfolio.
- Stepping Stones. These features present tips to help readers gain insights into action research processes, such as getting organized and knowing what documents and artifacts to save.
- Four Case Studies. Five teachers share their action research studies and progress throughout the book, showing readers how to use action research in real classroom situations.
- Travelers' Notes and Stories. Fellow scholars provide notes and stories of their projects: how they analyzed their data, told their research stories, and organized and displayed their data, teaching readers how to further implement and organize an action research project.
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good guidelines for beginners, Aug 31 2006
By Cheyrle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Action Research for Teachers: Traveling The Yellow Brick Road (Paperback)
There are lots of hands-on guidelines seems helpful to action researcher beginners. Good for teachers who are interested in doing some educational research in their classrooms and college students who are education majors.
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Oz references just go on and on and on and on ..., Aug 29 2006
By Geoffrey W. Boyle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Action Research for Teachers: Traveling the Yellow Brick Road (Paperback)
The references to "The Wizard of Oz" were cute for the first couple of pages, but after that it was sickening!
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Eh..., July 26 2010
By Lydia - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Action Research for Teachers: Traveling the Yellow Brick Road (Paperback)
Bought this book for a class, hated the class, never used the book. It was very dry and boring. If its not required I wouldn't buy it.
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