The classroom as laboratory: an exploration of teacher research.

When teachers are stand in front ofed with difficult situations in the classroom, where do they revolve for information and advice? rife research suggests that many practicing teachers do not use educational research to make decisions in the classroom (Gitlin, Barlow, Burbank, Kauchak, & Steven 1999) If teachers do not rely upon research to learn about teaching, where other might they turn? Strickland (1988) provided a list of the ways that teachers learn about teaching:

They learn by the agency of reading, by
observing in their be in possession of classrooms
and in the classrooms of
others, by dint of reflecting on their
observations alone and with
others, and by the agency of sharing ...