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An Advanced Workshop for Teachers, Literacy Coaches, and All Those Who Have a Stake in the Professional Development of Teachers Who Deal With LiteracyThis workshop will be about teacher-research as a means to foster long- term and lasting professional development for teachers. It will be especially geared toward those who are responsible for providing professional development for other teachers in their schools and for those teachers who want to start study groups at their own sites.
| Teacher research is professional development that respects the
knowledge and experience of the teachers involved. It is also a form of
curriculum development, school planning and program evaluation,
teacher preparation, and school reform. - Marion S. MacLean and Marian M. Mohr |
One of the goals will be to have each participant produce a publishable piece of research. A broader goal will be to initiate teacher-research as a way of thinking about schooling and approaching decision making at the individual student, classroom, school, and district level.
When we think about the classroom as a text, we begin to read it in complex ways. When we think about it as intertext, we begin to realize how many different worlds impinge on everything that we read within it.
The course will be held at Rhode Island College. The second Tuesday of every month, from 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P. M. from September through May. It will carry 3 graduate credits.
Instructor: Professor Marjorie Roemer, Director of the Writing Program, Director of the Rhode Island Writing Project.