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The Adventures of Weather Girl and Cloud Man: What Pre-service Teachers Taught Us about TeachingErin E MargarellaMatthew Ulyesses BlankenshipJenifer J Schneider
Overview
Original Study Context
Theoretical Stance
Data Source
Methods
Results Weather Girl Cloud Man
Conclusion
Original Study Context
Research Assistants for a Study involving writing instruction through iPad infusion.
Tasked with observing pre-service teacher and student interactions for two small groups at a medium sized catholic school.
Met once weekly for four hours and then the research team met to discuss observations.
Theoretical Stance
Social Constructive Lens – the idea of how meaning is created through interactions (Rosenblatt, 1994; Bandura, 1977)
There must be social interaction between two or more people to create meaning.
In this case, it was the group of students, preservice teachers, professor and each other.
Data Sources
Field notes from original study
Reflective notes from original study
Researcher reflective journal
Notes from our discussions
Researcher memory (confirmed by other sources)
Output from Original Study
Methods
Reviewing, interacting and discussing data
Read and reread notes looking for themes
Composed individual narratives and then compared
Weather Girl
Previous Thought- Teacher led instruction Teacher modeling
Shift in perception Intellectual freedom for
students Fewer academic limitations Focused attention on student
interest High interest increased
achievement
Cloud Man
Previous Thought – Social Construction
Environmental Shift: Rows to Groups
Student Generated vs. Teacher Generated
Nice Looking vs. Nice Learning
Enduring Observation
Conclusion
Extended observation has transformative power for novice to experienced teachers.
Perceived social construction to true socially constructed experiences in the classroom.
Increased academic freedom for students leads to an increase in student achievement
References
Bandura, A. (1977) Social learning theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Clay, M. (1975). What did I write? Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Coker, D. (2007). Writing instruction for young children. In S. Graham, C.A. MacArthur,
& J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Best Practices in Writing Instruction (pp. 101-118). New York, NY: Guilford.
Dewey, J. (2005). Art as Experience. New York: Perigee Trade.
Fitzgerald, J. (2005). Multilingual writing in preschool through twelfth grade: The last 15
References
Fitzgerald, J. (2005). Multilingual writing in preschool through twelfth grade: The last 15 years. In C.A. MacArthur, S. Graham, & J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of writing research (pp. 337-354). New York, NY: Guilford Press
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C.M. Levy & S. Ransdell (Eds.), The science of writing: Theories, methods, individual differences, and applications (pp. 1-27). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Merriam, S.B. (2009). Qualitative research: a guide to design and implementation. San Fransisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
References
Mertns, D. M. (2003). Mixed methods and the politics of human research. The transformative-emancipatory perspective. In A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Eds.), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research (pp. 135-164). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Pressley, M., Mohan, L., Fingeret, L., Reffitt, K., Raphael-Bogaert, R. (2007). Writing instruction in engaging and effective elementary settings. In S. Graham, C.A. MacArthur, & J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Best Practices in Writing Instruction (pp. 13-27). New York, NY: Guilford.
References
Rosenblatt, L.M. (1994). The transactional theory of reading and writing. In Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading (pp. 1363-1398). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Schlagal, B. (2002). Classroom spelling instruction: History, research, and practice. Reading Research and Instruction 42, 44-57.
Vygotsky, L. (1986). Thought and Language. Boston: MIT Press.
The Adventures of Weather Girl and Cloud Man: What
Pre-service Teachers Taught Us about
TeachingErin E Margarella - Erin Margarella
erinmargarel@usf.eduMatthew Ulyesses Blankenship – mublanke@usf.edu
Jenifer J Schneider
Questions?