St. Żeromski’s words reflect the meaning of current knowledge that lays a certain way of thinking
referring to reality and conducted research. The beginning of the 21st century, together with its informational
technology, led teachers to adopt what St. Palka calls the attitude of a researcher who can
construct the hypotheses or scientific facts resulting from practical or theoretical activity (or both).
Facts can be confirmed or invalidated thanks to the following: diagnostic research, experimental or
evaluative research, verification research, action research and others. Getting to know these types of
research and obtaining certain pieces of information from them enables us to introduce modifications
and improvements into the educational process. This entails certain specific tasks in teacher’s educational
process.
This article concerns the following problems:
- the presentation o f image of today’s teacher and of the factors that are essential and that make the
realization of professional development difficult, what follows is the discussion of selected research,
- the process of professional training and improvement of teacher’s research skills,
- the presentation o f proposals Donald Medley’s "triangular projects models” of the teacher’s effective
work - an alternative that teachers can use in the acquiring of research competence