Facilitated by Debra Swain and Laurie GitzelPQT Program Facilitators

NDTA Teacher Inquiry Session 1

November 23, 2009

A Joint Project Funded by Nanaimo School District and the BCTF Program for Quality Teaching (PQT)

-To ask deliberate questions about teaching and learning.

-To formulate a clear topic/problem to investigate.

-To engage in professional conversations that reflect on learning and teaching practice.

-To apply our professional learning to individual teaching situations.

-To make inquiry a social learning experience and a collaborative enterprise.

-To honour expertise.

-To ask deliberate questions about teaching and learning.

-To formulate a clear topic/problem to investigate.

-To engage in professional conversations that reflect on learning and teaching practice.

-To apply our professional learning to individual teaching situations.

-To make inquiry a social learning experience and a collaborative enterprise.

-To honour expertise.

Questions that may help to shape yourthinking and responding:

What got your feet in the door?

What is your vision for Teacher Inquiry?

What do you hope to discover or accomplish in this Teacher Inquiry Project?

Journal Reflection

Journal Reflection

What are your expectations for this social learning experience?

What are your hopes for this collaborative enterprise?

How do we want to be together?

How do we want to be together?

- STRATEGIES FOR CONVERSATION STARTERS

- PROTOCOLS FOR STRUCTURING CONVERSATION

- VERBAL/NONVERBAL TOOLS FOR SUSTAINING THE CONVERSATION

(WELLMAN AND LIPTON (2004)

CIRCLE DIALOGUE

CRITICAL FRIEND

TUNING PROTOCOL

CASE STUDIES

ORID MODEL (Nelson, 2001)

TALKING TRIOS

Action Research5 Phases

•Problem Identification•Plan of Action•Data Collection•Data Analysis•Plan for future action

What do you

know about

Assessment?

“For students to be able to improve, they mustDevelop the capacity to monitor the quality of their own work during actual production. This in turn requires that students possess an appreciation of what high quality work is, that they have theevaluative skill necessary for them to compare with some objectivity the quality of what they are producing in relation to the higher standard, and that they develop a store of tactics or moves which can be drawn on to modify their own work.”

Sadler, 1989 as cited by Earl, Rethinking Classroom Assessment With Purpose in Mind, 2006.

What is percolating?

What did you notice during the conversations?

What is driving your curiosityor interest?

What questions are surfacing on assessment?

Journal Reflection

Self-Assessment

I can use the BIG 6…Assessment for Learning strategies in my teaching practice.

Self-Assessment

I can use the BIG 6…Assessment for Learning strategies in my teaching practice.

“Inquiry is a self directed search for understanding. The essence of inquiry lies in formulating good questions and using research to come to a better understanding of those questions.”

Bob Hudspith and Herb Jenkins: Teaching the Art of Inquiry, 2001

Homework

1. Meet with a colleague before next session to discuss inquiry questions.

2. Connect online with a facilitator.

3. Read Lorna Earl’s article.

Homework

1. Meet with a colleague before next session to discuss inquiry questions.

2. Connect online with a facilitator.

3. Read Lorna Earl’s article.

EXIT SLIP

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