Blog 1: Write about your teaching passion/interest or a problem that you need to solve in your classroom. What question would you like to answer related that topic? What is the global background (international/national, state, district, school for that topic? What is needed to improve the situation? (Possible DQ and background and need?) My teaching passion is to help students learn to love to learn. My goal to inspire them to be responsible for their learning, so they will want to read, research, calculate, etc., and see how whatever they are doing is relevant to their future in school all the way through college and/or in their adult lives--professionally and personally. Integral in the learning process would be engagement and motivation demonstrated by my students. It is important to me that ALL of my students recognize this is their one pass at being a 4th grade student in my class and that they ALL need to help each other as well as themselves in being great students, that is, peer learners and teachers. So, my other great passion is making sure that our classroom has a culture of being a safe, close-knit, and supportive community.
At this moment, although I'm not certain, I know I would like the focus of my classroom action research to include how using peddlers could enhance students' learning. I had received a grant from the Napa Valley Education Foundation (NVEF) to purchase the peddlers so I could demonstrate that students would benefit from being able to move as needed to learn. According to Pat Wolfe's book, Brain Matters: Translating the Research to Classroom Practice, 2nd ed., research showed students need to move at least every 10-20 minutes to refresh their thinking, to learn best. It would also be great for me to learn how I can better support my students desire to read. So maybe, I will have students use peddlers during our sustained-silent reading time to determine if they will enjoy and/or focus better on reading when they use the peddlers than when they don't use the peddlers. I have learned that my DQ can be approached in a variety of ways vis-a-vis this statement: Naturalistic research using qualitative methods may investigate the same issue as experimental research using quantitative methods, but it does so in a different form and from a different perspective (Falk & Blumenreich, 2005). So, I will need to figure out which method will be best for my study.
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AuthorJulie C D Meyer-Houston began her exciting journey during Spring 2016 as a grad student in Touro University - California's Innovative Learning program to earn her Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree, which focuses on Social Justice & Equity and the use of technology in education. Archives
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