In partnership with Model Teaching, an industry leader in supporting educators, this course equips you with a plan for implementing action research in your classroom through a six-step process. Model Teaching's mission is to improve student performance by directly supporting teachers with quality content and resources. You will learn to identify classroom problems, craft research questions, conduct literature reviews, and employ qualitative and quantitative research methods for data collection and analysis, concluding with how to share results and future steps.
This teacher professional development course will provide you with a plan for implementing action research into your classroom. You will learn about the purpose of action research in education and evaluate the six-step process to utilizing it for your own classroom. You will identify a problem in your classroom and craft a research question. Then, you will learn how to select appropriate sources and conduct a literature review.
As you consider how to implement your action plan, you will learn about evaluating its effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative research methods and explore data collection and analysis techniques. Finally, you will learn how to form a conclusion and identify next steps, which you can share with others on your campus.
The course provides you with all the planning resources you will need to get started and supports you in designing an action research project ready to be implemented in your classroom.
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
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The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.