The implications derived from your research are important because they help the you better understand your students and what goes on in your classroom. To other people reading your research the findings and implications are important if they can relate to their situation in some way. For example, that may mean that the paper might be read by fellow teachers, parents or administrators who may want to know more about what was found because they work in similar situations or have children with the same types of needs that were addressed in your study. In some cases, a wider audience may read the paper such as readers of educational journals or magazines. Therefore, you need to think of your audience and the publishing criteria when writing the report.
Research reports can take many different formats.
Most teacher researchers who work in research teams first publish their reports in a team collection. This collection of teacher research articles can be run off and bound or placed in a notebook and distributed to fellow staff members at school or placed in the school library. The school district's area superintendent and to the school system's staff development office may also want copies for assessment reasons or other evaluative purposes. There are also Intranet and Internet publishing opportunities. Reports can be summarized as short articles and placed on a school's Intranet web site in a section devoted to teacher research.