1. Week 14, Nov. 21, 06 Grow up as a Professional

2. Agenda for today, the last class  Writing for funding and for conferences  Research critique  Making effective professional presentation  Methodology – issues and comments (ethical issues/consent forms)  Hot Topic: Home Schooling  House keeping (individual meeting and final presentation)

3. Individual Meeting & Final Presentation

4. Individual Meeting  A two-way conversation: strive for doing better: I give you feedback and you give me feedback Questions/confusions you have about your research in general? Questions about your proposal? Feedback on the learning experiences from taking this course:  what are some of the things about this course that you really like  what are some of the things that you think we could improve?

5. Final Presentation – how to get a good score?  Study purpose in a nutshell  Research questions  Research site & participants in brief (where, how many classes/students)  Data sources to answer each of your research questions  How will you increase the validity, reliability and credibility of your study? What about ethical issues?  Show one of your instruments from your appendix and justify (explain how you made/found this and what data/research question(s) will this instrument help you get/answer?  Timeline and justify your timeline.  Significance – what will you learn from doing this research? How does this research relate to/irrelevant to your teaching? How will this improve (or not) your teaching?

6. Hot Topic Is home schooling a danger to the American Society? Discussants: Kevin; Amy & Tim

7. Writing for funding and for conferences

8. Take a chance  If you don’t ask for funds, you will never receive it – this is the most important funding principles.

9. Rituals and Writing  Establish a writing routine P173-4

10. Geoff’s Tips for Being Able to Avoid Writing  Think about all the things at school that I need to do before tomorrow.  Scan my desk to see if someone has left me a note about a meeting, sports practices, birthday party that I need to go NOW.  Check my voice mail  Check my e-mail  Check my checkbook to see if it is balanced.  Call my wife/husband/child/friend/enemy to see what they are doing.  Walk down the hallway to see if I can find someone to talk to.  Dream about winning a lottery.  Make an appointment to see my dentist

11. Proposal Format for funding  Purpose and significance of the study, including the research questions itself and why this is an important teaching question.  A short exploration of the topic – literature review  Method, which explains what data will be collected and how it will be analyzed.  The feasibility – timeline  Dissemination plan- who do you intend to do with the results of this study  A budget with justification  Letters of support

12. Grant resources for teacher - researchers  Teacher As Researcher Grant – Interntional Reading Association http://www.reading.org/association/awards/rese arch_teacher_as_researcher.html Download application guidelines Download cover sheet Download application form  Many local and state Writing Project sites, as well as local and state affiliates of NCTE and IRA offer small grants to fund teacher research. I suggest checking your local site for further information.

13. Conferences  NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English, Annual Conference: http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/annual  Action Research Special Interest Group of AERA: http://www.teacherasresearcher.org/ http://www.teacherasresearcher.org/  New York State Art Teachers Association http://www.nysata.org/ http://www.nysata.org/ Annual Conference: http://www.nysata.org/conference.phphttp://www.nysata.org/conference.php  More conferences, see list compiled by Shi and the Research and Technology Committee.

14. Journals  Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research http://education.ucsc.edu/faculty/gwells/networks/  Action Research International http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/ari/arihome.html  Others English Quarterly Journal of Research in Science Teaching International Journal of Science Education The Journal of the Learning Sciences New Directions for Teaching and Learning

15. Action Research Resources  Teacher Research Resources: http://www.ed.arizona.edu/teacherresearch/# grant http://www.ed.arizona.edu/teacherresearch/# grant  Educating as Inquiry – A Teacher Action Research Site http://www.lupinworks.com/ar/index.html  Reflections on Teaching (The National Writing Projects) http://www.writingproject.org/Resources/reflection s.csp

16. What is in a Title? Chapter 8 & Chapter 9 P185  It’s memorable!  It provides a focus

17. Making Effective Professional Presentations Grow up as a Professional (Cont.)

18. 10 Rules to keep your audience awake  PowerPoint presentations: the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Recall all the presentations you made or you attended – give a list of suggestions pointers/reminders/things to avoid

19. Week 14, Nov. 21, 06 Grow up as a Professional

20. Week 14, Nov. 21, 06 Grow up as a Professional