The Teacher As Scholarly Practitioner

Catalog description

0 and EDUU 600 , EDUU 606 , EDUU 609 . Students who take this course are strongly advised to have either current or prior K-12 classroom teaching experience. Candidates in the MAT program must also have completed all credential coursework (including student teaching). The purpose of this course is to acquaint candidates with the concept of action research and to support them as they develop an action research proposal based on their own educational setting. The course is designed to enable candidates to understand the fundamental principles to a critical analysis of their own pedagogy and the learning outcomes of their students. The course will engage the participants in systematic inquiry into their own practice by helping them to frame appropriate questions, gather and interpret data, examine and analyze that data and attempt to find answers to the questions posed.