Action Research Helps teachers learn new ways to link curricula for their students and to explore teaching practices. By connecting curricula, teachers help students see the connections in their learning, realize its value, and gain a more complete understanding of their world and how it works. Action research helps teachers investigate their teaching practices with the goal of improving student learning.
Teachers explain how they create curriculum connections and conduct action research.
Doing Action Research Video Action research can help teachers improve teaching and learning through the study of their own classrooms and practices. This video program discusses the action research process and presents the experiences of several teachers who conducted their own action research studies. Teachers define a research question based on issues or problems of concern, develop a plan to study it, and then collect data as the action research unfolds. Research results can then be used to make changes in teaching practice. The specific examples in the video illustrate that action research is a professional development tool admirably suited for education.