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    EDUCATION 429 - 4
    RESEARCH
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    CLASSROOM TEACHER
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    Major Purposes
    This course has two focuses: (a) it will show how teachers can design and carry
    out research in their own school that will give
    them useful information about their teaching and
    how their students are going about learning;
    (b) it will present the major findings of recent
    published research on teaching and will illustrate
    the methods used.
    -The two focuses are related: knowledge of recent findings in educational research
    will assist teachers in selecting dimensions of their teaching, or of pupil learn-
    ing, for personal investigation and possible improvement; current trends in re-
    search methodology will provide techniques that, in modified and simplified forms,
    are easy to apply in the context of teaching.
    Course Content
    The course will be ?
    with an exploration of participants' views on research and
    the identificat,øfc of puzzling questnabout teaching and learning. A series
    of topics wilVthen be explored inypeating cycles of ac9.v .
    i6ies. Typically
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    iscussion of a pubhed review of research on the topic, with particula
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    attention to impl)ations for teachers
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    Deinonstr-atloVof how the methodscAn be modified for classx'dim use,
    followed b,y"practice of a simp']ified method with a vi4eccEped lesson
    or in,/iinulated classroometting.
    3. Png and discussf related researchvities that can be carried
    out by achers-'
    The top ics Jnc1ude
    - Direct vs. indirect instruction
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    Discussion as a teaching tool
    Teaching basic skills
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    - How teachers make decisions
    - Classroom climate
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    - Others identified by class participants
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    1. RIad reviews of published education,32<esearc
    2. i/repare two writtei plans for res,rch which
    petting, and whict are designed
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    1 how pupils are going about learning.
    3. /Provide verbal an written reactions to the p
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    ormation abolt one's
    aching or
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    terson, P:.L. &alberg/H.J., Research on Teaching. McCuthan Publ
    rporation (1979)\.
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