2011 Winter Retreat:
Annual Retreat:
Best Practices in Graduate Education
We will discuss the shape of our M.A. programs and issues related to practitioner research. To give us a springboard for our discussion of practitioner research, we will use the first chapter of Cochran-Smith and Lytle's book Inquiry as Stance (2009).
1. Valuing practitioner research suggests that we value the questions and concerns of practitioners. Reflecting on work in the last decade, Cochran-Smith and Lytle argue that “the body of published practitioner research reflects a distinctive commitment to investigating issues of equity, engagement, and agency in classrooms and schools” (p. 12). What issues seem most pressing to the practitioners whom you teach?
2. How are you training teachers to do practitioner research? What challenges are you finding in this work? Are any practitioner-generated theories of doing practitioner-research emerging in your courses (pp. 16-20)?
3. Is practitioner-research at your college/university being disseminated to (or generated in conversation with) policy-makers? Is it shaping any school reform or policy writing? How might we organize to increase our power (pp. 26-29)?
4. What is the relationship between K-12 teacher research and professorial research at your college/university or for you personally (pp. 30-31)?
MCEE Retreat Agenda
9:00 Coffee and Conversation
9:30 Announcements and celebrations
9:40 Small group review and large group discussion of our M.A. programs: strengths, challenges, questions, new directions
12:00 Lunch (Please bring money to order a sandwich.)
12:30 Discussion of practitioner research
3:00 Departure
Friday, February 5, 2010 -- MSU Writing Center, 300 Bessey Hall.
For information contact Lindsay Ellis, MCEE President.
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