The idea of the teacher as researcher is presented from several different perspectives--the teacher's, the administrator's, and the university based researcher's--to convey a sense of what it means to be a teacher/researcher. The following chapters are included: (1) The Teacher as Researcher--A Historical Perspective (Mary W. Olson); (2) The Door Is Open. Won't You Come In? (Faye Brownlie); (3) Learning to Research/Researching to Learn (Carol S. Avery); (4) Content Teachers as Researchers in Australia (Bert Morris, Patsy Bopf, and Nea Stewart-Dore); (5) Teaching as Research (Carol M. Santa); (6) Collaborating with Teachers on Research (Andrew C. Porter); (7) Preparing Principals for an Action Research Agenda in the Schools (John J. Beck); (8) Involving School Administrators in Classroom Research (Floyd Sucher); (9) A Model of Teaching and Instructional Improvement (S. Jay Samuels and H. Lawrence Jones); and (10) Commentary--Teachers Are Researchers (Patrick Shannon). (JD)