We will spend some time trying to refine, prompt, probe, elicit what it is that will occupy your time and energy during your action research efforts. Remember, action research is about you doing research into your practice. This is a course for you and it will be up to you to determine your focus for the term. Allow yourself some time to determine an area of focus that is meaningful for you and manageable given your time and resources. However, they are illustrations that provide some insights to what action research looks like in practice and how the accounts of teacher research can be shared with others.
Action research is research done by teachers, for themselves.
It is not imposed on them by someone else. All action researchers are committed to looking critically at what it is that they do in their classrooms and the effects of those actions on children. It is primarily for the benefit of children that we learn about and do action research. But action research can also be a guide for the individual professional development of teachers. That is, it is about teachers as learners in their classrooms, and of their practice.