Teaching as Inquiry Powerpoint presentation description

Teaching as Inquiry... the “biggest effects on student learning occur when teachers become learners of their own teaching, and when students become their own teachers”. “This allows students to show self-regulatory attributes that are most desirable for learners, such as self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self- assessment, and self-teaching.” Ref: John Hattie and Magnifying Glass: Flickr John HattieMagnifying Glass: Flickr

The Process

is a Framework for Thinking! Teaching as Inquiry What are your shared understandings of Teaching as Inquiry now?

The Process

How will it work for your school? When will you make time to reflect and review? How will you create a professional learning community with trust, safety, that challenges thinking and practice? How will you ensure people embrace the hard bits, do the research and engage in their inquiry with authenticity, clear purpose and ownership?

Priority Learners Whose needs are the greatest?

Priority Learners Who are the priority learners in your class? How do you know? What does your assessment data tell you? What other information has been gathered? From whom? and how? How well do you know these students?

Priority Learners Find out more about your focus group - What questions could you ask of: Students themselves? Whanau? Other teachers involved with those students? SENCO? Pasifika & Maori liaison contacts?

Priority Learners By gathering this information you are able to personalize learning for the student, making sure that the student is at the centre

g Being right Being adventurous Copying down Creating new ideas Listening to teachers Discussing with peers Accepting what you are told Questioning things Working alone Working with others Sitting still Being active Remembering facts Imagining possible solutions Showing deference Showing initiative What does learning look like in your class? Ref: Guy claxton – Building Learning Power Moving into the 21 st Century – Future Focused Learning

g Do you have an inquiry already? What have you tried? What do you want your priority learners to be doing that they aren't doing now? Exploring the focus

g Framing up an inquiry question Who? priority learners Content? what learning area, How? Using what? – e-Learning tools What 21 st C learning strategies? Key competencies, collaborating, self-review, peer coaching, mentoring, creating, problem solving

g Examples of Blended e-Learning inquiry questions How can I use blended elearning tools and strategies to engage reluctant writers in my target group (priority learners)? How can peer coaching and podcasting be used to improve reading fluency for priority learners? How can using an authentic audience and Storyrobe improve engagement and achievement in retelling for my target group?Storyrobe How can photos and photo apps be used to engage priority learners in collaborative writing? How can my priority learners develop effective questioning when using Skype to connect with a Science expert in the community? How can I get my priority students to review their progress in maths through blogging?

g Further resources TKI evidence based decision-making process Questioning and prompts Reflective questioning

g Did you get there? How do you know? What will you collect that shows: Achievement Engagement Understanding Well-being? What tools could you use to collect: Student voice Peer assessment Teacher observations Whanau/family input?

g And finally … So what? What did you learn from the inquiry? Did your inquiry achieve what you hoped for? What changes would you make if you did it again? Did your inquiry make a difference? Now what? What will you stop doing? What will you start doing? What will you keep doing? Where to next?

Contact: Name: Diane Mills Job Title: CN Blended e-Learning Team Leader Tel: