The Power of Questions: A Guide to Teacher and Student Research

by Beverly Falk

The provides a suggested framework that outlines each class session, complete with detailed assignments and rubrics for assessment. Teacher research is a tool that can help you continue to learn throughout your career. Pursuing your own questions has the potential to foster genuine understandings of educational methods, re-invigorate your teaching practices, and re-shape your curriculum for the benefit of your students. The Power of Questions makes connections between investigating issues related to your practice and designing research curricula for your students. Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich carefully illustrate and scaffold the research process for you by breaking it into smaller steps. They cite examples of real teacher researchers' studies as they provide advice, study questions, and exercise that help Unlike any other book on teacher research, Falk and Blumenreich provide you with analogous research projects for your students that support a classroom environment of inquiry and discovery. For teacher educators, an accompanying online instructor's manual includes rubrics to support and assess teacher professional development. Whether you are a preservice, inservice or veteran teacher, through the inquiry and reflection of teacher research you can learn about your practice and your students and gain a deeper understanding of the potential that the inquiry process has to support powerful student learning.

Genres: Education

232 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2005

Reviews

[Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always great to read and reread. The power of Action Research is alive and well. What would you like to implement in your classroom next year? How can you collect data about your classroom and implement positive change? We all can improve our practice!

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

A waste of paper. If you’ve read research before (and you should have if you’re reading this book), then don’t bother picking this up. It tells you what you can already figure out about research and how to approach it simply by virtue of reading it widely.

[Stacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five stars not because I got joy out of reading it necessarily, but because it does well to serve its purpose.

[Valerie D]

A good introduction to educational action research if you’ve literally never done research before. A bit tedious if you know the basics. It does introduce a few research skills I’ve never read about/used and gives some guidance as you lay out your research results.

[Marsha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book for anyone looking to do more action research in their classroom....

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource for conducting research in the classroom and listening to students' questions. Very straight-forward with lots of good examples.

[Shé M]

Required reading. Once it was no longer required, I no-longer read it.

[Kyla Bell · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book for an inquiry based research project. I’m my opinion, it was a waste of money. You can find better resources through videos and articles. It was a required textbook.