Opportunities: Transforming Educational Research and Teaching Practices
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 174
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Our educational world is in a constant battle. Teachers race through the day in an attempt to race to the top. They struggle for quality time with their students and are constantly being second guessed by politicians and parents. School days are organized around assessments and punctuated by frequent interruptions.
Opportunities: Transforming Educational Research and Teaching Practices is a learning journey for all teachers and educational leaders who want to transform their practice.
Steven Witt’s Opportunities: Transforming Educational Research and Teaching Practices:
- Engages readers to think carefully and deeply about one’s pedagogical perspectives; stimulating readers to explore key assumptions forming the bedrock of his/her professional lives.
- Encourages readers to stop assigning large amounts of homework that was not meaningful and instead connect and empower their students with more choice.
- Includes the author’s narrative account of his own transformative learning journey.
- Describes the pathway of transformative learning, includes an account of the latest theories of educational research, and draws on newer research paradigms that celebrate development of the researcher’s self-knowledge.
- Integrates activities that guide and encourage readers.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Introduction
Transformed
My Opportunity
From the Inside Out
Moving Forward
Chapter Two—Opportunities
Introduction—Opportunity Knocks
A Promising Transformation Leads to Successful Practices
Courage
Collaborative Opportunities
Collaborate, Build Relationships, and Communicate
Chapter Three—Creating a Wave
An Overview of Educational Research—Taking a Risk
Constructivism
Integral Approach to Community and Global Change
Reflection and Action
Chapter Four—Literature Review
The Literature Review
Sources
Managing
Synthesizing and Analyzing the Landscape
Writing
Conclusion
Chapter Five—Narrative Inquiry: Transforms Professional Development
Introduction
Narrative Inquiry—The Pathways
Telling the Truth
Add Our Voice
Who Are We?
Theory to Practice
Chapter Six—Strategies for Success
Research Plan
Samples
Conclusion
Chapter Seven—Writing
The Writing Process
Meeting a Deadline
Getting Feedback
Final Thoughts
Chapter Eight—Transformed
Preface
The Very First Day
Creating a Space for a Community of Truth
Where Do I Begin?
I Am a Teacher?
Opposed to a Lot of Teachers on Campus
Come Sail Away—Metaphors That Define Us
I Have All the Answers?
Back to the First Day
A Prayer Answered
Grade School
High School
College and the Emergence of My Teaching Identity
Gaining My Teaching Voice—My Preservice Teachers Speak Out
Chapter Nine—These Are My Children You Are Teaching
Preface
Seeking Diversity
Autobiographical Stories
Oh, the Places I’ll Go
“What If I Mess This Up?” My Biggest Fear
Transformed
Reaching Beyond
We Are How We Teach
The Connections We Make
We Define Ourselves
Class Is Ending, but the Journey Is Beginning
Epilogue
Chapter Ten—New Opportunities
Introduction
Generating Our Own Teaching Theories
Dreaming Beyond What I Can Be
Being Transformed Is a Heart and Soul Endeavor
My Life Unconstrained
New Opportunities
References
Highly effective teacher and educational leader. PhD scholar and researcher with knowledge in current best practice educational theory and methods. A national and international presenter with knowledge in student engagement and literacy practices. A published author and has presented on literacy methods on four different continents. He is focused on helping schools reach academic excellence. Effectively leads a large graduate education program and partners with local school districts.
Founder and Executive Director of EdAchieve a non-profit organization created to ensure quality academic achievement across the community for all children - especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds so that children of diverse backgrounds will be prepared to excel in the 21st century.