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EDU 690
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EDU 690: The Masters Project Summer 2008
Professor: Christopher T. Shively, Adjunct Professor, B.S. - Elementary Education, M.S. - Ed. Educational Computing. C.A.S. Educational Leadership
Office: Virtually - wherever one wants to meet - Hours: 5 - 9, M-F
Phone: 517-6265 (cell and voicemail); 662-6603 (home)
Email: shive6@gmail.com, shivelct@buffalostate.edu
Course description: (Absolute Prerequisite, EDF 689) This course is the culmination of your graduate degree study. It is the most comprehensive and inclusive work you will do in your program; therefore, you should choose your topic for research carefully, manage your time skillfully, and be ready for constructive feedback along the way toward completing your paper. Projects should represent a topic of interest in teaching elementary or middle school education and reading or curriculum and instruction (depending on your content strand). As teacher candidates, your transformation into master teachers will depend both on your experience and your ability to put research into action. Therefore, you will design an action-based research project where you develop a plan for researching some problem of relevance to you in your current or future classroom. You may also wish to do a case study where you focus on a single student or a single classroom intensely with regard to a particular phenomenon that is present in the case.
Optional Text: Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Research (2nd ed) by Geoffrey E. Mills (2003). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill, Prentice Hall.
Course meeting plan: We do not meet as a class regularly, so please consult the following agenda for deadlines and meeting times. Individual conference appointments
On the Trails to Teaching and Learning
By: Christopher Shively
Teach Children HOW to Learn
Not What to Learn
Orchard Park, NY
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