Dr. Celia Oyler, Associate Professor of Education, Curriculum & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University.
3 Credits - Out-of-Program (OOP) for Groups 1-15
Pass/Fail only
This course invites students to: 1) explore their professional lives as teachers through in-depth writing of teacher narratives, and 2) plan teacher-research projects for their own settings to explore their own students’ learning. Throughout the course we will read both teacher narratives and teacher research. This course requires students to write their own narratives as well as understand the theoretical arguments for teacher-authored studies of practice.
\Loughran, J, Mitchell, I, & Mitchell, J. (Eds.). (2002). Learning from teacher research. New York: Teachers College Press.
Lyons, N., & LaBoskey, V. K. (Eds.). (2002). Narrative inquiry in practice: Advancing the knowledge of teaching. New York: Teachers College Press.
a) Become familiar with both required texts.
b) As you acquaint yourself with the books, start a reading response log for one
of the books. The log should include at least the following sections: new concepts/theories worth exploring in more depth together in class; ideas for your own writing/research/teaching sparked by the authors; questions you want to pose about the text (things you didn’t understand or agree with); questions you want to pose to the class to invite reflection on teaching and learning. [You will be required to maintain reading logs for both books, so if you wish to start both, that will save you time later.
c) Write a narrative about a time in your life when you learned something meaningful.
Professor Celia Oyler earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory and Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1993. Before that she taught for 15 years in elementary, middle school and high school classrooms in various regions of the United States. Celia is excited about returning to Japan to teach as she is a 1974 graduate of Canadian Academy in Kobe; it was here that her deep and abiding interests in pottery and Zen Buddhism were first sparked.