Guidelines Posted for the 2019 Teachers as Learners Program Call for Pre-proposals

The James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) has posted a new call for pre-proposals for the 2019 Teachers as Learners program.

In 2017, the James S McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) inaugurated a program supporting use oriented research expanding our understanding of teachers as learners and as agents of change in education. The 2019 call for pre-proposals remains focused on supporting team-based research addressing the topic teachers learning to facilitate communication in the classroom (e.g., eliciting student explanations, guiding collaborative discussions, making effective use of questions).     
 

Research projects described in the pre-proposal must be rooted firmly in the learning context, operate in real-time, and accommodate the constraints imposed by the local environment.  All pre-proposals must provide the following information: 

• a brief but thorough description of the question or problem motivating the pre-proposal, and an explanation of the measures by which teacher learning and teacher change will be assessed,
• an explanation of the proposed approach including a data acquisition/data management plan, (research projects acquiring new data or utilizing existing data are welcome; where feasible, teams are encouraged to utilize existing data sets),   
• a list of the metrics and measurements that are planned to be used by the team,
• the identification and qualifications  of the members of the interdisciplinary team, and
• budget plan by year.    (NB – The annual budgets should consider both ramp up and ramp down needs and need not request identical amounts for each year.)