ED414566 CS013004
Title:
Cooperative Communication among Parents and Teachers about Children's
Emergent Literacy. Final Project Report to the National Reading
Research Center.
Author(s): Serpell, Robert; Baker, Linda; Sonnenschein, Susan;
Gorham, Linda; Hill, Susan
Author Affiliation: Upper Kobuk Eskimo Language Program,
Shungnak, AK.(BBB13916)
Pages: 71
Publication Date: 1996
Notes: Best available copy. Print on some pages is blurred.
Sponsoring Agency: National Reading Research Center, Athens,
GA. (BBB30638)@National Reading Research Center, College Park, MD.
(BBB30639)
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Maryland
Journal Announcement: RIEMAY1998
A study described
and evaluated the Cooperative Communication Project, which was designed
to improve communication between inner-city families and schools
about young children's literacy development. A total of four pre-kindergarten
and kindergarten teachers from two schools in the Baltimore City
Public Schools completed an inservice course (a series of six seminar-format
discussion sessions) out of which developed plans for individual
action research projects to be carried out in the teachers' classrooms.
Frequent on-site support visits were conducted while the teachers
were implementing their research projects. Teachers presented oral
reports and prepared a final written version of their project reports.
Because of the small number of teachers and schools that eventually
participated in the project, preliminary plans to investigate systematically
the impact of the inservice course on the organizational climate
of the schools and the relation of the schools with their communities
were dropped. Evaluation of the four completed projects is cautiously
optimistic on the grounds that the process succeeded in connecting
research findings and issues with the lived experience of the participating
teachers and in inspiring them to undertake independent inquiry
projects in the specified fields of cooperative communication among
parents and teachers about children's emergent literacy. (Contains
43 references, the four final written projects, and five figures
representing material presented in seminars and excerpts of transcripts
of seminar discussions. An appendix contains a list of the concrete
products associated with each of the four projects. (RS)
Descriptors: *Action Research; *Emergent Literacy; Inservice
Teacher Education; Kindergarten; *Parent School Relationship; *Parent
Teacher Cooperation; Preschool Education; Primary Education; Program
Effectiveness; School Community Relationship
Identifiers: Baltimore City Public Schools MD; *Communication
Strategies
