IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Hello again from the Butler Classroom! This week we were mainly focusing on our Teacher Research Questions and Projects. Teacher Research Projects are where teachers focus on a way to improve one aspect in their classroom. We look for a question that is specific to your own classroom as well as achievable in the few weeks we have left at the Lab School. We looked at different teacher research projects from Madison, WI. We were able to see how other teachers have incorporated their research projects into their classrooms. We all worked on forming our own questions that were specific enough, but also would lead us to discover an answer we might not have originally been looking for. On top of that, we discussed how to inventory books with our class. There are baskets that we put our books into that we labeled as sing-alongs, awards, wordless picture books, repetitive and interactive text, family, and go to books. This is important, because it organizes books into these categories so that our friends can find certain books that they want to read. It is also important to discuss it and decide it with a class, because we want them to feel that they have a say in their classroom setup. This creates a community and a sense of ownership and belonging into their environment.
Written by Lauren Neifert, Carly Glickman, and Rosalie Fidanze

This is a picture of the labels that we gave to our book baskets for our book inventory in the Butler Classroom.

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