In lieu of a thesis, you will develop a seminar paper. This seminar
paper will use action research methodology to study your own teaching.
Coursework will guide you through the entire research process.
You will also be required to give an oral presentation of your
study to a professional audience.
Some topics chosen by the previous cohort included: Teaching
multicultural issues in a first grade classroom; understanding
student participation in a middle school social studies classroom,
creating community in high school science classroom; supporting
mathematical reasoning and collaboration; creating and enacting
a feminist curriculum in an 11th grade honors English class, using
primary source documents in the high school history classroom;
the journey towards a student-centered pedagogy: research and
reflections of a student teacher in secondary science, discussing
literature in the Spanish classroom; sustaining student interest
in an eighth grade mathematics classroom; using journals in the
science classroom; Teaching for conceptual understanding in an
elementary school mathematics classroom.
