Welcome back to our Research Seminar Capstone Experience (Spring 2011)

(otherwise known as teacher storytelling).

During this Spring Seminar Capstone master’s project, you are connecting practice to theory through inquiry research conducted in your classrooms as you reflect on your daily teaching. As teacher practitioners, you are reflecting on your autobiographical professional selves - your intellectual history - describing how your teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom is transforming you.

Your practitioner research project provides a small glimpse into the culture of your classroom where you are systematically gathering data and analyzing your work and that of your students. In this classroom context you are learning about yourselves and that of your students as you tell and retell your collective stories with students as co-researchers along side you.

Your teacher reflections become data you will cite and reference in the telling of your classroom story. You will augment your experiences finding out what others are saying about your topic, connecting what you are reading to what you are discovering as you go along, trusting the process, yourself and your students.

We will continue to refer to Living the Questions (Hubbard & Power, 1999) as a guide in collecting and analyaing your data and our beloved APA style manual in writing your story to academic specifications.

Now on with the show.........................Frances