Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Reflective Thinking Routines and Their Impact on Teachers’ Rates of Positive to Directive/Corrective Interactions with Students

Author

Marcello Lopez

Purpose of the Action Research

The purpose of this action research study is to use two of the reflective thinking routines (the “Micro Lab Protocol” and “I Used to Think…, Now I think…”) from Making Thinking Visible by Ritchhart, Church, and Morrison (2011) with preschool teachers to see what kind of impact the intervention will  have on teachers’ rates of positive to directive/corrective interactions with their students.

Download the full text (.pdf)