The Role of Research to Improve Our Teaching

Teachers are always learning, finding out things, analysing information, adapting their behaviour according to information received, looking to improve and adapting to modern demands. All of this constitutes research, and when teachers become researchers, or teacher-researches, the traditional descriptions of both teachers and researchers change. Teacher-researchers create questions about what they think and observe during their teaching and their students' learning. They also collect student work in order to evaluate performance, but they also see    student work as data to analyze in order to examine the teaching and learning that produced it.

Research in teaching empowers teachers to make a positive difference in terms of classroom practice, for example, how to make an effective lesson and how to understand the students' behavior. Research also enables teachers to provide relevant information about teaching and learning in actual classrooms. Most importantly, by engaging in reflective practice. Researcher improves the lives of teachers by seeking to discover  more effective ways of implementing the teaching-learning process.