TST-BOCES/Ithaca College Teacher Research Fellows Inquiry Group

In exchange for their work, Teacher Research Fellows will receive a stipend of $500 at the conclusion of the year.

In addition, Fellows will enjoy the following benefits:

• greater familiarity with current research in the field of teacher inquiry and in the area(s) of their research projects;
• mentoring in the use of a variety of data collection methods and analysis techniques to help reflect on their own practices;
• explicit support in meeting the proficient and highly proficient characteristics of the Danielson Framework’s Domain 4, component e: “Growing and Developing Professionally;”
• skills for sharing the results of professional learning to a teacher community beyond one’s own school (e.g., writing for professional journals, presenting at professional conferences, developing a local professional learning opportunity within a district or for a nearby campus);
• a new network of colleagues, each of whom is committed to systematic professional growth;
• receipt of the title, “Teacher Research Fellow” to signify the teacher’s efforts to positively contribute to student achievement;
• strategies to develop local teacher research communities back in their home schools/districts;
• competence at using data in a variety of ways in the service of student learning; and
• professional invigoration.