Action research , action inquiry, practioner inquiry or administrator inquiry are interchangeable terms for a self learning process. Although some differences, it refers to an initial wondering of questioning about an educational process and taking action to solve a problematic situation. To complete the cycle, new questions about the results will arise and new inquiry will be needed. The cycle stars all over again.
From the perspective of an administrator, there are several benefits to it such as Preventing Isolation.- By engaging in the process of administrator inquiry with other principals, or even in collaborative inquiry with a group of teachers within the building, principal is forced out of isolation and surrounded with other professionals conversing about practice in systematic and meaningful ways. Role Model for the school.- When the principal will be seen as a learner where he participates in the problem solving process then students and teachers take learning seriously. Like the saying from Ralph Waldo stated What you do speaks so loudly that no one can hear what you say. Best practices flourish at the school.- By giving the necessary administrative nurturing to the challenges of the school then faculty enthusiasm for implementation of new solutions expands and grow. A final benefit of administrative inquiry is that it slows down the harried pace of a principal.- When engaging in inquiry one takes control of one project giving the opportunity to become proactive rather than reactive. Engagement in inquiry forces in devoting sustained attention to one issue, tension, problem, or dilemma principal face as an educator. Inquiry can help you, at least momentarily, step out of the frantic pace of the principalship.
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