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Direct linkAnderson, Derek L.; Standerford, N. Suzanne – Issues in Teacher Education, 2012
A serendipitous moment, a passing conversation, led to this study. A university professor expressed concern that his second-grade son was "bored" with his weekly spelling lists, homework, and tests. A colleague of his, a former elementary teacher with 30 years experience and currently teaching field-based methods courses in this child's…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Rural Schools
Doing Research in a Professional Development School and Why I Feel like Houdini in a Straight Jacket
Download full textNeapolitan, Jane – Issues in Teacher Education, 2004
When the author was a little girl, her father told her the story of how he once saw the great Harry Houdini escape from a straight jacket. In the early 1900s, Houdini fascinated thousands of people by performing feats of life-threatening daring and agility. Houdini was a professional in the traditional sense: he acted alone, kept his trade secrets…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Field Tests, Teacher Educators, Inquiry
