Quantification of Teacher Research

From Teaching to Research

In teacher education, teaching and research have been taken as two separate and unrelated aspects of training. Teaching is the job of classroom teachers and research that of experts from outside the classroom. If teachers were involved at all in research, they almost invariably play a minor role by assisting in data collection or carrying out the experiment. Thus, the problem being studied comes from without the classroom and hence has little relevance to the teacher's daily work. It is therefore not surprising if teachers feel research has nothing to do with them.