Our goals are to connect grads and current students, share ideas and advice, and be inspired. #ElonEd chat brings together experienced teachers and novice teachers to discuss best practices. We see our chat as a way to mentor future teachers who are students at Elon, and anyone who wants to join us in that effort is welcome.
Welcome to the #ElonEd chat! Our goals are to connect grads, current students, fac/staff, and other educators to share ideas and advice and to be inspired.
A1: I learned my first year of teaching that #cooperativelearning was not just about giving groups tasks. I needed to also keep individuals responsible, which was confirmed by research at the time. #ElonEdhttps://t.co/q7tPyD0jbY
A1... we have to be critical consumers of ed research because "if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything" - Ronald Coase #ElonEd
A1: We use it constantly as part of our product development process. We’re lucky enough to be smack-dab in the middle of an #edresearch hotbed here in NC #eloned
A1: When you are reading aloud to middle schoolers and people think you are crazy, you can point to #EdResearch to justify what you are doing. #ElonEdhttps://t.co/Yaz80fSnzS
This year I have switched to standards-based grading. It has been a learning experience. Many teacher grade for HW or classroom participation but what is that actually grading? #ElonEd
A1: #edresearch matters because it pushes us to discover whats new. If we wish to create life long learners in our students we must also be life long learners ourselves. #ElonEd
Q2: How can current and future teachers stay up-to-date on the latest #edresearch? In what ways is staying up-to-date challenging? What are the benefits? #ElonEd
A2 - find trusted resources that support a meta-analysis of the research... Not just one piece; What Works Clearinghouse has a wealth of navigable resources https://t.co/pBVoyGOLdB#ElonEd
If a conference (like @iste) has “Research Roundtable” discussions, hit them up - being about to pose questions directly to #edresearchers is super valuable #eloned
A1: #edresearch matters because it pushes us to discover whats new. If we wish to create life long learners in our students we must also be life long learners ourselves. #ElonEd
A2 I actually have a hard time doing this well w future Ts... As a teacher educator I’m usually giving PSTs the reading list, which doesn’t model the searching and sifting process of keeping up w #edresearch. #ElonEd
Q2: How can current and future teachers stay up-to-date on the latest #edresearch? In what ways is staying up-to-date challenging? What are the benefits? #ElonEd
Sometimes #edresearch helped me make hard decisions, like reforming how I graded or how often I gave homework. Even if no one else on my team was doing it, I felt justified. #ElonEd
A2: Very difficult to keep up to date, but mathed research was emphasized in grad school so I feel currently informed.. My schoolwide pd also incorporates research articles #Eloned
If a conference (like @iste) has “Research Roundtable” discussions, hit them up - being about to pose questions directly to #edresearchers is super valuable #eloned
A2... part 2... keep up to date by attending quality conferences, joining professional organizations, and recognizing when you've developed tunnel vision (where you have limited knowledge/perspective of a topic)
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A3 - absolutely... Knowing what you want to know, why you want to know it, and how you will know it are all critical pieces - and find a friend to help because it gets messy and distracting
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A3: When ST, My CT was published and completed action research on her classroom. Benefit: learned about student's skill set/ Challenge: No time, lots of collaboration goes into a research article #ElonEd
Some #teacherresearch questions @UNCSchoolofEd: How can I help my students be more organized? Why do my students think #socialstudies is boring? What effect will integrating music into my study of history have on student learning? They then collected and analyzed data. #ElonEd
Great question - we try to regularly invite edresearchers to speak at our monthly lunch-and-learns. Your awesome profs will know better than me where to find additional opportunities #ElonEd
Late to the party! A3: New and current Ts should be researchers! Action research is an integral part of teaching that helps us grow. Pick something your interested in, research it and try to implement! Get a group if you can. #Eloned
Late to the party! A3: New and current Ts should be researchers! Action research is an integral part of teaching that helps us grow. Pick something your interested in, research it and try to implement! Get a group if you can. #Eloned
A3 Teacher inquiry/action research projects, video clubs, and lesson study are all valuable approaches to classroom-based #edresearch. #ElonEd#MiddTeachers
Late to the party! A3: New and current Ts should be researchers! Action research is an integral part of teaching that helps us grow. Pick something your interested in, research it and try to implement! Get a group if you can. #Eloned
A3: As a future teacher, becoming a researcher has allowed me to observe and discover new ways of teaching across NC @rainbowcomsch and collaborate with several other educators #ElonEd
Agreed! Definitely miss the days of researching and how much people were willing to share and collaborate... it's the after part of writing it that's not so much fun #ElonEd
@psu_scasd_pds has teacher inquiry as a major part of their collaborative work (for a teacher ed example that has current and future Ts working on action research—looking forward to attending their annual inquiry conference in a few weeks) #ElonEd#MiddTeachers
A4 They can inform one another and both can be quantitative or qualitative. Assessment practices are not always equal to assessment results... Instruction plays a critical role in the cycle. #edresearch can inform both instruction and assessment for Ts and Ss.
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We built action research into our global school model - but uptake was very limited. In retrospect we were too hands-off for something that, at least initially, can need sig support - I still love the idea and am totally up for taking another swing #eloned
Totally agree that strong structures and support are needed. In fact, that is what @nhunnicutt12 and I are learning in our study of #greenschools. There is a #greenculture at each one. It would be HARD for a teacher to not be on board. #ElonEd
How to shift so inquiry is thought of as not another thing on the plate but instead one of the ways to solve intractable problems that stay stuck on my plate #ElonEd
How to shift so inquiry is thought of as not another thing on the plate but instead one of the ways to solve intractable problems that stay stuck on my plate #ElonEd
A4: I see SO MANY similarities between good assessment practices and good research methods: multiple data points, measurable data points, change over time, mix of quantitative and qualitative… #ElonEd
A5: Teacher research (or action research, as it is also called), helps teachers think more deeply about their work… and helps them listen to their students more (as they are often the source of data). #ElonEd
A5 - Reflective skills and knowledge... I had never been as reflective as I was when conducting #edresearch as a classroom teacher. Forces you to slow down and analyze why you're making the instructional decisions for the students in front of you. What/so what/now what...
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A5: Teacher research (or action research, as it is also called), helps teachers think more deeply about their work… and helps them listen to their students more (as they are often the source of data). #ElonEd
#eloned Thanks for your hard work! Always very indepth and thorough. It's from you where I also find curation of research like this: https://t.co/vVnwEKTMek
A6 - prof publications from ILA, ASCD, Learning Forward... also website for What Works Clearinghouse and one of my current go-to resources is the Michigan Practice Guide for Early Literacy (great appendix with resources); @ReadingShanahan
and @nellkduke are also great!!#ElonEd
A6: You have to find your home. I like more theoretically driven pieces, so I tend toward prof journals. But PDK and Ed Leadership offer strong starts. Ed Researcher offers big pictures. #ElonEd
"For me, coding always seemed like a difficult concept reserved for computer scientists. However, once I started bringing coding into my instructional practices, I learned that it’s far more approachable than [I would have expected]." @MsParraschhttps://t.co/KzwzkfOzhE
