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Chapter 13

Chapter 13. Present and Publish. Knowledge Generation and Presentation. Focus #5: Self-study research generates knowledge that is made public through presentation and publication.

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Chapter 13

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  1. Chapter 13 Present and Publish

  2. Knowledge Generation and Presentation • Focus #5:Self-study research generates knowledge that is made public through presentation and publication. • You have written your research report and are ready to share it with colleagues in your class, school, and/or community. • It is crucial that you share the research you have enacted so others can learn from you. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  3. The Importance of Presenting Your Research • You have generated new knowledge that may be beneficial to your colleagues who are facing similar dilemmas. • Your work may spark a school-wide reform because you are able to bring an important issue to colleagues’ attention. • It can make a difference in other schools facing and struggling for solutions to related problems and projects. • By sharing your work, you model the essence of continuous professional learning and teachers as lifelong learners. Self-Study Teacher Research

  4. Challenge the Status Quo of Presentations • Self-study scholars aim to challenge the status quo of traditional presentations. • Consider the challenge and opportunity to design and enact a creative research presentation. Self-Study Teacher Research

  5. Advice for Presenting 1. Announce who you are. 2. Stay cool, calm, and collected. 3. Speak slowly and slower than you think. 4. Don’t read your paper. 5. Engage/involve your audience in some way. 6. Offer an inclusive presentation. 7. Incorporate visuals that are readable and easily understood. 8. Offer a brief, usable handout. 9. Watch your time. 10. Close your presentation with a synthesis of your main points. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  6. The Proposal Review Process • Prepare a high quality proposal which will contribute to the field. • Finding a good fit for which conference, section, division, or special-interest group to submit your proposal to is key to its acceptance. • Knowing how your proposal will be assessed is always helpful in writing it. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  7. Things to Consider When Writing Your Self-Study Proposal • Contribution to self-study of teacher education discourse At the end of your writing, will you and others have learned something new? Will you present your reframed issues about your practice and new questions you developed? • Self-study methodology Did you do more than make list of your data collection tools ? What evidence was there that you did more than think about what others need to do? Did you include your role in the study? • Community and knowledge generation Have you worked in a community of critical friends to build knowledge from and about practice? Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  8. Advice for Getting Published 1. Believe in the important story about teaching you have to tell. 2. Share your manuscript with critical friends. 3. Decide on the audience who will most benefit from your research. 4. Choose a journal that best fits your research focus and audience. 5. Keep researching and writing. 6. Accept the long process of revision. 7. Embrace critique and be persistent. 8. Celebrate your research and writing efforts! Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  9. Coming Full Circle 1. Personal Professional Accountability You had an opportunity to question your practice, hold yourself personally and professionally accountable to your students, and reframe your understanding of teaching. 2. Applicability You had an opportunity to explore and apply self-study in your teaching practice and that you will return to the critical friend work again and again. 3. Reforming in the First Person With Critical Friends You initiated and crafted a research project with the support of colleagues and with the ultimate goal of improving and reforming education for a more just system of schooling for all learners and teachers. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  10. Celebrate and Continue Your Research Journey—A Wondrous Field Self-study and our messy inquiries take us to a wondrous field with many interesting diversions and paths that afford us the opportunity to engage in a research journey with critical friends. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

  11. Class Activity • Contemplate what your research has taught you about the next steps in studying your practice. • Discuss what your research projects collectively add to the knowledge base of teaching. • Take time now to appreciate, present, and celebrate the process of all your hard work! Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry

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