A professional issue or topic is selected and researched prior to the meeting. Background material is collected and shared. Where possible, informed people with differing views are presented. In this analysis phase, materials are summarized and analyzed. It is important that in this phase the members do not share their personal interpretations or evaluations of the material being presented.
Participants discuss their own positions on the issue.
They determine if their own experience supports or refutes a particular position. After everyone has an opportunity to share their personal reflections, they discuss the implications of the dialogue on their own teaching. Return to top Action Research A ction Research is a collaborative technique which provides teachers opportunities to carry out their own research on teaching and learning. Unlike other professions, the source of knowledge in teaching does not come from practitioners, but from researchers in universities outside the classroom. Such research findings are often in conflict with what teachers know intuitively about what works in their own context.