Tai lieu Tap Huan he 2011

ACTION RESEARCH as part of Teacher Professional Development Presented by: Tran Kim Dung Quang Tri High School Dong Ha city, August 2011 SESSION OUTLINE  What is Action Research?  Why should we do Action Research?  Steps in Action Research process  Samples of Action Research Proposal  Reflection & Questions MOET/DOET/EXAM BOARD… Syllabus Materials/ Resources Assessments Textbooks Teachers • who creates professional knowledge; • who is a reflective practitioner; • who is a lifelong learner; • who continually improves on the quality of teaching and learning. A teacher as a professional Action Research Definition  Action Research is the act of reflective planning for school improvement.  It includes analyzing our own situations and professional practices to improve our program.  Action Research is concerned with changing situations, not just interpreting them.  Reflect…Analyze…Implement Action Research History  Kurt Lewin(1946) credit with development of concept of action research  Evolved and influenced by Kemmis(1983), Ebbutt (1985), Elliott (1991), Hopkins (1985) and others… ACTION RESEARCH is NOT just writing a research paper Reasons to do action research  Help you build a reflective practice based on proven ideas or techniques  Allow you to try new ideas and reliably assess their effectiveness  It will help you build confidence in your managerial or instructional decisions  It will contribute to the professional culture of teaching at your school  It can create meaningful and lasting change in order to improve student achievement Primary purposes of Action Research  Improve one’s own educational practices  Improve one’s own understanding of those practices  Improve the situation in which those practices are carried out STEPS IN ACTION RESEARCH PROCESS  Problem / Research Question  Plan of Action  Data Collection  Data Analysis  Reflection => plans for future action . Resources Assessments Textbooks Teachers • who creates professional knowledge; • who is a reflective practitioner; • who is a lifelong learner; • who continually improves on the quality of teaching and learning. A teacher. new ideas and reliably assess their effectiveness  It will help you build confidence in your managerial or instructional decisions  It will contribute to the professional culture of teaching. about what you have learned so that your findings will be useful to others?  Reflection Reflection is the bridge is the bridge between between thinking thinking and and acting acting Action