This is an example of an outline from an article called 'Teachers need Teachers to Grow'
Purpose: To show the key concepts revealed by a research study on collaborative teaching communities.
Thesis: Being part of a teaching community helps teachers to share, improve and expand their professional skills.
Audience: Teachers, education researchers.
I. Introduction
A. Study
1. Main Purpose
2. Secondary purpose
II. Teacher learning in a collaborative culture.
A. Teacher's beliefs
B. Environment effects on teacher learning
1. Group work
2. Cohort structures
a. closed
b. open
c. fluid
III. Research process
A. Foundations
B. Data collection methods
C. Timing
D. Responses
IV. Cohort
A. Description
1. General characteristics
2. Reasons for entering the program
B. Context of the study
1. General background
2. Unique components
C. Nature of Teacher's Learning Processes
1. Survey
a. data collection
b. results
V. Context of the study
A.General background
B. Unique components of the study
VI. The nature of Teacher's Learning Processes
A. Organization of information
B. Survey results
VII. The Cohort becomes a Collaborative Structure
A. Learning community
B. Teachers's impresions
VIII. The mesh between Program Design and Teacher's Learning Processes.
IX. Summary and Implications
Source: Wenzlaff, T and Wieseman, K (2004). 'Teachers need Teachers to Grow.' Teacher Education Quarterly
