Year 3 Course Pages

Each IRAP Year 3 participant will be completing an action research project in conjunction with the "Getting Reading Results" VoyagerU modules. Action research is research conducted by educators in their own classrooms and/or educational contexts.

According to Calhoun (2002), action research (which we use synonymously with "teacher inquiry" and "teacher research") can be described as "continual disciplined inquiry conducted to inform and improve our practice as educators...[It] asks educators to study their practice and its context, exploring the research base for ideas, compare what they find to their current practice, participate in training to support needed changes, and study the effects on themselves and their students and colleagues" (p. 18). Calhoun, E. (2002). Action Research for School Improvement. Educational Leadership, 59 (6), 18-24.

It is research that is designed to promote and support positive changes in an effort to better serve students' needs. All work for the IRAP action research project will be completed directly in the VoyagerU web site.

The IRAP action research project is designed to assist each participant in contributing to the School Improvement Plan. Each participant will select a literacy-related goal from the School Improvement Plan and develop an action research project around that goal.