CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH: AN EFFECTIVE TOOL OF CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article discusses some issues concerning teacher and lesson efficiency of being paramount in amending programs on pedagogy and teaching methodologies. Lately, Classroom Action Research (CAR) has become an object of novel studies in the scope of improving class quality and efficiency. Actually, this approach is a professional development outlook in which teachers critically study their action data and seek to find improvement trends. The approach is spread early all over the world, however, for Armenian research context it is a comparatively new sphere. As a matter of fact, the article represents the effectiveness of the method and its applicability for the professional development of teachers. Accordingly, the need of implementing the discussing method has been highlighted on the sample of SOIE – School of International English.